History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Printing specific texts

This is a guide to the History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book. It was copied with permission from the guide at the University of Pennsylvania, created by Bruce E. Nielsen, and updated for Columbia University by Michelle Chesner

Specific titles

Shulhan Arukh

Ben Menahem, Naftali. “The Early Editions of the Shulhan Arukh,” [Hebrew] pp. 101-120 in, Rabbi Yosef Karo:  Inquiries and Studies in the teachings of Maran, the author of Shulhan Arukh (Jerusalem :  Mossad Harav Kook, 1969) ed. Yitzhak Raphael (available via ILL)

Margaliot, Reuven, “The First Edition of the Shulhan Arukh,” [Hebrew] pp. 89-100, in Rabbi Yosef Karo: Inquiries and Studies in the teachings of Maran, the author of Shulhan Arukh [Hebrew] (Jerusalem :  Mossad Harav Kook, 1969) ed. Yitzhak Raphael (available via ILL)

Levush

Sládek, Pavel, "A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe’s Levushim," in Connecting Histories; Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe (2019) 49-66