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