Printing the Talmud

Complete Editions, Tractates, and Other Works and the Associated Pressesfrom the Mid-17th Century through the 18th Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37672-4
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 290 mm, Gewicht: 1197 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Printing the Talmud: Complete Editions, Tractates and Other Works, and the Associated Presses from the Mid-17th Century through the 18th Century is a profusely illustrated major work describing the complete editions of the Talmud printed from about 1650 to slightly after 1800. Apart from the intrinsic value of those editions, their publication was often contentious due to disputes, often bitter, between rival publishers, embroiling rabbis and communities throughout Europe. The cities and editions encompassed include Amsterdam, Frankfort am Main, Frankfurt on the Oder, Prague, and Sulzbach. This edition of Printing the Talmud addresses these editions as an opening to discuss the history of the subject presses, their other titles and their general context in Jewish history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heller, Marvin J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: The Babylonian Talmud

1 Amsterdam—Benveniste Talmud: Preparatory Phase

2 Amsterdam: Benveniste Talmud

3 Frankfurt on the Oder—First Edition: Background

4 Frankfurt on the Oder: The Talmud

5 Amsterdam: The Incomplete Edition

6 Berlin and Frankfurt on the Oder

7 Frankfurt on the Main: 1720–1722

8 Prague—The Censored Edition: Background

9 Prague: Berakhot—1728; Talmud—1830–1835

10 Amsterdam—Proops Talmud: 1752–1765

11 Sulzbach Editions: Red (1755–63) and Black (1766–70)

12 Metz: Two-Amud Tractates

13 Vienna

14 Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki

15 Dyhernfurth: Early Tractates

16 Dyhernfurth: Talmud Editions

Part2: The Jerusalem Talmud

17 Amsterdam: Seder Nashim with Commentaries

18 Livorno: Seder Nezikin with Commentaries

19 Other Editions of the Jerusalem Talmud

Part3: Minor Tractates and Translations

20 Massekhtot Ketanot (Minor Tractates)

21 Christian-Hebraists: The Talmud (Mishnah) in Translation

22 William Wotton and His Translation of Shabbat and Eruvin

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marvin J. Heller is an award winning author of books and articles on early Hebrew printing and bibliography. Among his books are the Printing the Talmud series, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book(s): An Abridged Thesaurus, and several collections of articles.