Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Kwartalnik Historii Żydów
Angaben zur Quelle:
278 (2021) 373-436
Keywords:
Shachor, Chaim ben David
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Printing, Hebrew
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Hebrew imprints
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Hebrew imprints
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Printing, Hebrew
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Printing, Hebrew
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Augsburg (Germany)
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Lublin (Poland)
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Silesia (Czech Republic)
Abstract:
Chajim Shachor, one of the most important printers of Central Europe of the 16th century, earned his experience in Prague, where he took part in printing seven books in the years 1514–1526. When forced to leave the city, he moved to Oels (Oleśnica). This was where he published the Pentateuch (1530), the first Hebrew book in Silesia. Then he appeared in Augsburg, a book printing and trade hub at the time, becoming the first Jewish printer operating in a Germanic country. He used his own types in Silvan Otmar’s Christian printing shop, using the latter’s woodcutting blocks. This cooperation produced, among other works, the Hagada (1534), as well as Selichot (1536), adorned with woodcuts designed by Daniel Hofner,or Arbaa turim (1540), containing a woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger. It was in Augsburg that the names of Shachor’s son-in-law and his son, appeared in the colophons of the books for the first time; they assisted Shachor in his works in the next two towns where he stopped: Ichenhausen (where they published the first ever Yiddish prayer book), and in Heddernheim. All of the approximately 15 prints produced by Shachor are now extremely rare and valuable, with few copies surviving to this day. Ultimately the family of printers settled in Lublin, although not a single book published in that town and bearing Chajim Shachor’s name has been preserved. After he died, the workshop continued to publish Jewish books for another century and a half.
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