Further Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book / / Marvin J. Heller.

• Superior document: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 78
• VerfasserIn: Heller, Marvin J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 78.; Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 pages) :; illustrations.

Further Essays addresses aspects of early Hebrew book publication, among them book arts, little known authors, places of publication, and miscellaneous subjects. Book arts addresses pressmarks representing publishers motifs, several unusual, and the varied usage of biblical verses to entitle books. The second section focusses on the works of rabbis and scholars, once prominent but not well remembered today, noting their achievements and their varied books, encompassing such topics as biblical commentaries, Talmudic novellae, philosophy, and poetry. Several locations once important, also not well remembered today are addressed; Further Essays concludes with articles on other unrelated book topics.

Table of Contents

Preface -- List of Figures -- Section Introductions -- Part 1 Hebrew Book Arts -- 1 Rare and Unusual Motifs on Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Book Title-Pages -- 2 The Deer Motif on Early Hebrew Book Title-Pages -- 3 Zafenat Pane'ah : A Further Example in the Titling of Hebrew Books -- 4 Heshek Shelomo : Varied Heartfelt Books so Entitled -- Part 2 Makers of Hebrew Books -- 5 The Porto Family: Eminent Sages, Scholars, and Prolific Seventeenth-Century Authors -- 6 Abraham Menahem ben Jacob ha-Kohen Rapa mi-Porto (Rapaport) Ashkenazi: A Renaissance Rabbi of Interest -- 7 Jacob ben Samuel Bunim Koppelman: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Jewish Scholar -- 8 The Albelda Family: Moses and Moses Jacob Albelda—Prominent, Eminent Scholars -- 9 Moses ben Baruch Almosnino: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Sephardic Sage in Salonika -- 10 Judah Leib Pukhovitser: The Life and Ethical Works of a Kabbalist -- 11 Jacob Judah (Aryeh) de Leão Templo: A Converso Scholar, a Jewish Hakham -- 12 Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn: A Multi-Faceted Erudite Scholar -- 13 Solomon de Oliveyra: A Seventeenth-Century Sephardic Sage -- Part 3 Places of Hebrew Books -- 14 Guadalajara: A Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Press of Distinction -- 15 Early Hebrew Printing in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe -- 16 A Fleeting Moment, A Short-Lived Press: Hebrew Printing in Sixteenth-Century Fez -- 17 Hebrew Printing in Turka: Home to a Barely Remembered Hebrew Press -- 18 Tarnopol: A Short-Lived Early-Nineteenth-Century Hebrew Press -- 19 Hebrew Printing in Lissa (Leszno): A Brief (Perchance) Transitory Moment -- 20 Halberstadt: A Small but Significant Hebrew Press in a Saxon Community -- Part 4 Book Varia -- 21 For a Remembrance: Books so Entitled as a Remembrance for the Author -- 22 Sefer ha-Tappu'ah ( Book of the Apple ): Aristotle Expresses an Interest in Jewish Concepts -- 23 An Enigmatic Pseudo-Shklov Edition of Barukh Sheʾamar -- 24 Tzevi Hirsch of Nadworna's Sefer Alpha Beta -- 25 Yalkut Reʾuveni : Abraham Reuben ben Hoeshke's Popular Kabbalistic Midrashic Collection -- 26 R. Nathan Nata ben Reuben David Tebele Spira and His Works -- Maʾamar Yayin ha-Meshummar , on the Prohibition against Drinking Stam Yeinam (Gentile Wine), and Contemporary Books on This Subject -- Bibliography -- Index.