Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Rosenthaliana
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,1-2 (2020) 155-187
Keywords:
Samson ben Zadok,
;
Leṿi, Naftali Hirts
;
Crescas, Meir
;
Hebrew imprints
;
Hebrew imprints
Abstract:
The first edition of Sefer Hatashbeṣ, a collection of responsa printed in Amsterdam in 1739 at the press of Naftali Herz Levi Rofé, is a magnificent example of the fine typography and engraving that contributed to the prominence of 18th-century Dutch Jewish printing. Through an examination of the newly identified manuscript copy which was used in the printing house to typeset this book, I trace the story of the printing of Sefer Hatashbeṣ through the efforts of Meir Crescas of Algiers, and his collaboration with Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Maghrebi, and Italian Jewish communities. I demonstrate how the material facets of book production both relied on and reinforced the various networks – intellectual, financial, religious, communal, familial, social – that linked Jewish communities around the Mediterranean Basin and beyond, across class, nationality, and language.
DOI:
10.5117/SR2020.1-2.008.SIEN
URL:
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