He probably lived in the Jewish quarter of the town, which gave its name to the nearest city gate, the Porta della Judeca. Fumagalli 323.

10 Adar 5235-17 February 1475 Ench & Gruber 28 : 34. Jew. Enc. article "Incunabula" gives the date as February 5th.

Encb & Gruber 28: 23. For note on date cf. A. Marx, in Jewish Quarterly Review N.S. 11, p. 101

JTS has two leaves as well.

Jew. Enc. 6: S75, Furst, Bibi. Jud. ll: 80. https://data.cerl.org/istc/is00625180

They actually did come from Rome. The printers at Rome were trained by Schweinheim and Pannartz, and probably printed between 1469 and 1471. See M. Marx, "On the Date and Appearance of the First Hebrew Books," in Alexander Marx Jubilee Vol. (NY, 1950), 1:481-502.

The books Amram will discuss here are actually the first DATED Hebrew books.

Putnam l : 25.

Matt. XXIII passim.

Putnam "Books and their makers during the Middle Ages" N. Y. and London 1897, 1 : 404.

R. E. J. 1907 p. 246; J. Q. R. 20: 527. Present scholarship (2024) cites the Roman printings as the first, estimated at 1469-1471.

Z. H. B. 8 : 46. Also cited in in Fuchs and Fuchs-Mansfeld, "Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands," (v.1, Introduction, ff.4): Archives Departementales de Vaucluse E., not. Martin No. 234, fol. 35r.; facsimile in Bernhard Blumenkranz, Gilbert Dahan and Samuel Kerner, Auteurs juifs en France medievale. Leu Oeuvre imprimee, Toulouse, 1975, xv, xvi.

De Rossi "Annales Hebraeo-typographici Sec. XV." Parma 1795, p. VII.

Ersch & Gruber 28 : 22.

Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge / von genanten Schriftstellern bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J.S. Ersch und J.G. Gruber. (1818-1889)

Loew "Graphische Requisiten" Leipzig 1870, 1 : 189.

Graphische Requisiten und Erzeugnisse bei den Juden / von Leopold Löw.

Jew. Enc. 12 : 390.

See Jewish Encyclopedia on Usury; image of p.390 here: http://d2b4hhdj1xs9hu.cloudfront.net/L12F39FW.jpg

Ruskin: Praeterita III. 1. "But now that I had a missal of my own and could touch its leaves and tum, and even here and there understand the Latin of it, no girl of seven years old with a new doll is prouder or happier; but the feeling was something between the girl's with the doll and Aladdin's fn a new spirit-slave to build palaces for him with jewel windows. For truly a well illuminated missal is a fairy cathedral full of painted windows, bound together to carry in one's pocket, with the music and the blessing of all its prayers besides. And then followed, of course, the discovery that all beautiful prayers were Catholic, all wise interpretations of the Bible, Catholic; and every manner of Protestant written service whatsoever, either insolently altered corruptions, or washed-out and ground-down rags and debris of the great Catholic collects, litanies and songs of praise." A comparison of the old Hebrew prayer book with its modem substitute, tempts me to cite this opinion of Ruskin with much approval.

Praeterita : outlines of scenes and thoughts, perhaps worthy of memory in my past life / by John Ruskin.

Ersch & Gruber 28: 22 n. 13. Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge / von genanten Schriftstellern bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J.S. Ersch und J.G. Gruber. (1818-1889)

Ersch & Gruber 28: 22. Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge / von genanten Schriftstellern bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J.S. Ersch und J.G. Gruber. (1818-1889)

Ersch & Gruber 28: 21. Allgemeine encyklopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer Folge / von genanten Schriftstellern bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J.S. Ersch und J.G. Gruber. (1818-1889)

Geschichte der Juden in Spanien und Portugal, published by Springer, 1861-67

Author of Estudios históricos, políticos y literarios sobre los judíos de España, published in 1848 by D. Manuel Díaz, Madrid

It is significant that when some of the monasteries were secular ized in Naples in 1860, the government of Italy came into the possession of books and manuscripts, said to be of great value, relating to Hebrew antiquities. (Hebraische Bibliographie 4 : 70). The Jewish Chronicle of London, quoting the 'Educatore lsraelitico', states that a congregational library was discovered in the town of Pitiliano, an obscure place in Tuscany. (Heb. Bib. 4: 119).

This is truly, wonderfully untrue now: Scholars like Roberto Bonfils, Shlomo Simonsohn, Benjamin Ravid, and many, many others have filled the field with scholarship and information about the Jews of Italy.

"How can Judah forget Judah? All is emptiness compared with my love for thee, Until I enter thy gates with thanksgiving, Where I long to abide, That I may prepare my grave in thy land." . From a poem of Judah Halevi, quoted by Edelman and Dukes "Treasures of Oxford" London 1851, p. 51

Such as Abraham ibn Daud's "Book of Tradition" (Sefer Hakabbalah), Abraham Zacuto's "Book of Genealogies" (Sefer Yuhasin), Joseph Hacohen's "Chronicles of the Kings of France and Turkey" (Sefer Dibre Hayamim lemalkhe Zarfat umalkhe bet Ottoman Hatogar) and "Vale of Tears" (Emek Habakha), David Gans' "Branch of David" (Zemah David), Gedaliah ibn Yahya's "Chain of Tradition" (Shalshelet Hakabbalah) and Judah ibn Verga's "Rod of Judah" (Shebet Yehudah).

• From the Mussaf prayer on New Year's Day, see Dembitz "Jewish Services in Synagogue and Home", Phila. 1898, p. 150, where the author says that this prayer "is one of the first banished wherever men deal boldly with the liturgy."

So many examples that he ignores, but Yosef Ha-Cohen's 16th century Sefer Divre ha-yamim le-malkhe Tsarfat u-malkhe bet Oṭoman (Chronicle of the French and Ottoman kings) is particularly notable.

See, e.g.: "Jacques Basnage and the History of the Jews: Anti-Catholic Polemic and Historical Allegory in the Republic of Letters" by Jonathan M. Elukin in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1992), pp. 603-630 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709940

There are many, many histories written since then. Salo Baron would publish his monumental Social and Religious History of the Jews half a century later.

He's referring to the 19th

Not (yet) in Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures online

The Jewish Exponent is unfortunately only available via Proquest subscription at present.

Does anyone know his wife's name? "#thanksfortyping"

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