Early in last month’s sale at Kestenbaum & Company, a New York auction house specializing in rare Hebrew books, when a single leaf of Rashi’s commentary on the Pentateuch came on the block, fevered ...

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The first Bible in Hebrew characters ever to be printed in Palestine will be issued here soon, it was disclosed today by Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University. Palestine, the land in ...

The Hebrew University has just published part two of the bibliographical work, “Hebrew Printing in the East,” by Abraham Yaari. Special chapters in the new volume are devoted to Hebrew printing in ...

In 1577, approximately 120 years after Gutenberg’s invention, R. Eliezer Ashkenazi established the first printing press in the Land of Israel in the city of Safed. This Jewish printer, who had learned ...

In the alternate pandemic reality of my daydreams, I don’t spend my afterwork hours sanitizing groceries and watching more TV than ever before. Rather, I’m raising chickens outside my charming ...

Within a century of the Gutenberg Bible, print technology had fundamentally transformed the production, circulation and ...

Arbaah Turim, ca 1492 edition. The National Library of Israel (NLI) has acquired 90 singular pages from the earliest period of Hebrew printing. The pages come from the only known copy of a late ...