Further studies in the making of the early Hebrew book / by Marvin J. Heller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface; Hebrew Book Arts; Chapter One Behold, You Are Beautiful, My Love: The Use of Ornamental Frames in Hebrew Incunabula; Chapter Two Akedat Yitzhak (the Binding of Isaac) on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books; Chapter Three The Bear Motif on Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Hebrew Books; Makers and Places of Hebrew Books; Chapter Four In a Time of Plague: The First Hebrew Press in Adrianople; Chapter Five Abraham ha-Ger: A Proselyte Printer of Hebrew Books in Salonika; Chapter Six Kaf Nahat and the First Hebrew Press in Izmir.

Chapter Seven Often Overlooked: Hebrew Printing in Prostejov (Prossnitz)Chapter Eight Clarifying the Obfuscation Surrounding the Reissue of Sefer ha-Kavvanot; Chapter Nine Hebrew Printing in Padua: Resumed, but Briefly; Chapter Ten A Tale of Two Cities: Leipzig, Hamburg, and Don Isaac Abrabanel; Chapter Eleven Israel ben Abraham, His Hebrew Printing-Press in Wandsbeck and the Books He Published; Chapter Twelve He Should Be Called Sama'el: Michael Levi Rodkinson: The Life and Literary Career of a Jewish Scoundrel Revisited.

Chapter Thirteen Deciphering the Talmud: The First English Edition of the Talmud Revisited. Michael Levi Rodkinson: His Translation of the Talmud, and the Ensuing ControversyBook Varia; Chapter Fourteen Sixteen Leaves or Less: Small Hebrew Works of the Seventeenth Century; Chapter Fifteen Books Not Printed, Dreams Not Realized; Chapter Sixteen Sibling Rivalry: Simultaneous Editions of Hebrew Books; Chapter Seventeen Variations In and Between Early Hebrew Books; Chapter Eighteen Often Overlooked: Examples of Front Matter in Early Hebrew Books.

Chapter Nineteen What's in a Name? An Example of the Titling of Hebrew BooksChapter Twenty Who Can Discern His Errors? Misdates, Errors, and Deceptions, in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise; Chapter Twenty-One The Earliest Printings of the Talmud; Miscellanea; Chapter Twenty-Two Halakhic Continuity or Change? Medieval Sephardic Practice at the Seder; Chapter Twenty-Three Purim Seforim as/with Mishlo'ah Manot? A Sixteenth-Century Case Study; Index.

Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book addresses a variety of aspects of the early Hebrew book often treated in a cursory manner. The essays encompass book arts, printing-places and printers, and unusual book varia.

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