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A year later, in 1841, he established the first Hebrew printing house in Jerusalem, preceded only by the printing house of the Armenian community, founded about a decade earlier. In 1843, Sir Moses Montefiore, who had known Bak in Safed, gave Bak a new printing press called "Moshe and Yehudit", named after Montefiore and his wife Judith.
The first to establish a Hebrew printing-press and to cut Hebrew type (according to Ginsburg) [2] was Abraham ben Hayyim dei Tintori, or Dei Pinti, in 1473. He printed the first Hebrew book in 1474 (Tur Yoreh De'ah). In 1477 there appeared the first printed part of the Bible in an edition of 300 copies.
The first printing press in the Land of Israel, and all of Western Asia, was established in Safed in 1577 by partners Eliezer and Abraham ben Isaac Ashkenazi (apparently no relation). The first book printed was Lekach Tov, a commentary on the Book of Esther by 18 year old Yom Tov Tzahalon.
Manoel Dias Soeiro (Dutch: [maːˈnul ˈdijɑ(s) ˈsʋeːroː]; [needs Ladino IPA] 1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh or Menashe ben Israel (מנשה בן ישראל), [note 1] was a Jewish scholar, rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsmah) in Amsterdam in 1626.
The first of the family engaged in printing was Israel Nathan b. Samuel, the father of Joshua Moses and the grandfather of Gershon. He set up his Hebrew printing-press in Soncino in the year 1483, and published his first work, the tractate Berakot, Dec. 19, 1483. The press was moved about considerably during its existence.
First printing press of Greek books in Ott.Empire. Closed down by the authorities in 1628 [97] 1706 Aleppo: Athanasius Dabbas: First press for printing in the Arabic script in the Ottoman Empire; operated until 1711. Funded by Constantin Brâncoveanu and established with the assistance of Anthim the Iberian. [8] 1729 [98] Constantinople ...
Babylonian Talmud; 2d edition; printed by Daniel Bomberg, Venice. Daniel Bomberg (c. 1483 – c. 1549) was one of the most important early printers of Hebrew books. [1] A Christian Hebraist who employed rabbis, scholars and apostates in his Venice publishing house, Bomberg printed the first Mikraot Gdolot (Rabbinic Bible) and the first complete Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, based on the ...
Estellina Conat (fl. 1474–1477) was an Italian-Jewish printer. She was the first woman active as a printer. [1] [2] [3] She was married to the Jewish physician Abraham Conat of Mantua and Ferrara, who founded the first Jewish printing press in 1475. [4] She was active in the family printing press business independently of her spouse. [5]