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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…

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Samuel Abbas

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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1693

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Rabbis, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

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Print & book culture, Lists & catalogues
Printed page with Hebrew and Latin text and small illustration of book with decorative border.
Catalogo dos Libros que Semuel Ben Israel Soeiro Vende (Catalogue of Books for Sale by Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro)
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These three pages come from a catalogue of books listed for sale by Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro, a bookseller in Amsterdam. It lists first the Hebrew books and then the ones in Spanish. He printed the…

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Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1652

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Jewish languages, Economic life, Christian-Jewish relations

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Print & book culture, Lists & catalogues
Printed page in Portuguese with two narrow columns on right of main text.
To the Readers (of Yerushalayim)
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As I was completing the first volume of this book of ours, I was on my way to Vienna, and the late scholar, Mr. [Peretz] Smolenskin of blessed memory, in his desire to complete the printing, wrote…

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Abraham Luncz

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1886

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Zionism, Print, Jerusalem, Jewish identity, Politics

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Political Culture, Lists & catalogues