Creator Bio

Theodore Hackspan

1607–1659

Theodore Hackspan was a Lutheran printer affiliated with the University of Altdorf, Switzerland. He was especially interested in Jewish works. 

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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon

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Early Modern Rabbis and Intellectuals on the Move

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