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Lot #    5267
Auction End Date    8/12/2003 10:31:11 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Nashim Evriot betur Madpisot, etc..
Title (Hebrew)    נשים עבריות בתור מדפיסות, מסדרות, מוציאות לאור
Author    [Bibliography] Abraham Meir Habermann
City    Berlin
Publisher    Reuben Mass
Publication Date    1933
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    First edition. 27, [1] p., 8 vo., 188:125 mm., light browning. A good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Nashim Evriot betur Madpisot describes the important part women had in the development and spread of Hebrew printing from its inception to the first decades of the twentieth century. The fifty two entries in the book begin with Estellina, the wife of Abraham ben Solomon Conat, who printed in Mantua and Ferrara in c. 1475-77 and concludes with Leah, the wife of R. Joseph Zliger in Jerusalem in 1930. In addition, there is an additional listing of seven non-Jewish women who operated presses that published Hebrew books.
          
Detailed
Description		    Abraham Meir Habermann, (1901–1980), bibliographer and scholar of medieval Hebrew literature. Born at Zurawno (Galicia), Habermann from 1928 was librarian at the Schocken Library in Berlin. He immigrated to Palestine in 1934 and served as director of the Schocken Library in Jerusalem until 1967. From 1957 he taught medieval literature at Tel Aviv University (professor, 1969) and taught at the Graduate Library School of the Hebrew University. He was editor of the department of bibliography (Jewish printers) for the Encyclopaedia Hebraica, and the department of medieval Hebrew poetry for the Encyclopaedia Judaica. Habermann began his study of medieval literature in 1925, specializing in the Ashkenazi piyyut from the time of R. Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn. A prolific writer, his books include: Ha-Madpisim Benei Soncino (1933): Gevilim; Me'ah Sippurei Aggadah (1942); Ha-Genizah (1944); Toledot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri (1945); Ha-Piyyut (1946), Ateret Renanim, piyyutim and songs for Sabbath and festivals (1967): Ha-Sefer ha-Ivri be-Hitpattehuto (1968); Sha'arei Sefarim Ivriyyim (1969); and Toledot ha-Piyyut ve-ha-Shirah (1970), which is the first attempt at a survey of the history of Hebrew piyyut and poetry and its development in various cultural centers from post-biblical times to the Haskalah period. Habermann edited and compiled such diverse medieval works as: Piyyutei Rashi (1941); Selihot u-Fizmonim of R. Gershom Me'or ha-Golah (1944); Gezerot Ashkenaz ve-Zarefat (1946); Nizozot Ge'ullah, an anthology of redemption and messianism (1949); Mahberot Immanu'el ha-Romi (1950); Even Bohan of Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (1956); and studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Edah ve-Edut (1952), and Megillot Midbar Yehudah (1959). He served as the Encyclopaedia Judaica departmental editor for Medieval Hebrew poetry.
          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0118433; EJ
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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