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Book SynopsisFurther 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 ContentsPreface 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
