Hebrew printing and bibliography
Bibliographies
xi, 518 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
9780871045157, 9780870682049, 087104515X, 0870682040
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Foreword / James W. Henderson - Preface / Charles Berlin - Part I Selected bibliographic essay by Joshua Bloch: A. Hebrew Pringint in Spain and Portugal. Early Hebrew printing in Spain and Portugal; Zacuto and his Almanach Perpetuum
B. Hebrew printing in Italy. Venetian printers of Hebrew books; Hebrew printing in Riva Di Trento; Hebrew printing in Naples; The Library's Roman Hebrew incunabula; First Hebrew book printed during the lifetime of its author - C. Hebrew Books and Booklore. Hebrew printing
15th to 20th centuries; Some odd titles of Hebrew books; The people and the book: On the love, care and use of books among the Jews - Part II: Expurgation of Hebrew books / Isaiah Sonne - Index to parts I and II - Part III: A gezetteer of Hebrew printing / Aron Freimann - Part IV: The people and the book: the background of three hundred years of Jewish life in America. A tricentennial exhibition at the New York Public Library, sponsored by The Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation, October-December, 1954. An annotated list of illuminated manuscripts, rare books, authentic documents and related materials, compiled by Joshua Block - Part V The Jewish Division of the New York Public Library: The Jewish Division of The New York Public Library in 1927 / Joshua Bloch - Jewish Division of the New York Public Library / Abraham Berger - The classification of Jewish literature in The New York Public Library / Joshua Bloch
"Studies by Joshua Block and others, reprinted from the publications of the New York Public Library on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Division of the New York Public Library."
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