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The twelve-volume “Bermann Talmud'' was financed by the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (Issachar Bermann Segal), printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, by Michael Gottschalk, and published by John…
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Behrend Lehmann
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1697–99
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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, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1693
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…
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Willem Surenhuys
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1698
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan
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Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)
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Late 14th to early 15th Century
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The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…
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Caspar Luyken
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1703
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Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…
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Daniel Bomberg
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1520/3
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This Haggadah from Amsterdam was printed by Joseph ben Abraham Athias and is adorned with elaborate copper etchings by artist Abraham Bar Jacob. It was the first Haggadah to include these sorts of…
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Joseph ben Abraham Athias, Abraham Bar Jacob
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1695
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In August 1614, a gingerbread baker named Vincenz Fettmilch (d. 1616) led a mob that rampaged through the Judengasse (Jews’ street) in Frankfurt am Main, injuring and killing two or three Jews…
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Matthäus Merian
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1628
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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
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1652
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This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…
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Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560