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The Romm publishing house was a publisher of Jewish religious literature from 1788 to 1940. [1] It is known for its 1886 Vilna Shas , which still serves as a definitive edition. Baruch ben Yosef Romm founded the business originally in Grodno and it continued there for some decades at the same time that its primary operations moved to Vilnius in ...
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 ...
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, provided 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.
These printing houses dealt with the printing of texts in which various artistic images were incorporated. The first Hebrew printing house was established by Yisrael Bak (abbreviation of Baal Koreh) in Safed in 1841 and transferred to Jerusalem in 1841. Bak worked with presses and tools for casting letters he brought with him from Europe.
In 1980, the company was acquired by Charles Lieber (1921–2016) from the Werbelowsky (Werbel) family. Lieber was a protege of Alfred Knopf, had been an executive at Random House, and was owner of textbook publisher Aldine Atherton. [13] [14] [15] Hundreds of the company's publications have been digitized by the Yiddish Book Center research ...
1547 – The first Hebrew Jewish printing house is founded in Lublin. 1567 – The first yeshiva is founded in Poland. 1580 – 1764 First session of the Council of Four Lands (Va'ad Arba' Aratzot) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates from Jewish communities (kehillot) meet to discuss taxation and other issues important to the Jewish community.
The firm is named for the Soncino family of Hebrew book printing pioneers. Based in Northern Italy, this family published the first-ever printed book in Hebrew type in 1483 (an edition of the Talmud tractate Berakhot) and continued a string of printed editions of the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, and various rabbinical works until about 1547.