@book{7896,
author = {Akiva Aaronson},
title = {People of the Book: Five Hundred Years of the Hebrew Book from the Beginning of Printing until the Twentieth Century},
year = {2014},
pages = {231 pp.},
publisher = {Feldheim Publishers},
address = {Nanuet, NY},
isbn = {97811598269567},
note = {
Contents:
Part I. Printing begins
- The printing press: Gutenberg's invention
- The birth of the book: replacing the maunuscript
- The first fifty years: pioneers
Part II. Printing develops
- The sixteenth century: years of growth and establishment
- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Amsterdam dominates Europe
- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the industrial revolution and Eastern Europe
Part III. Printing flourishes
- She'eilos u'teshuvos (Responsa): proliferate with printing
- The Pesach haggadah: "in each and every generation"
Part IV. Printing prevails Persecution and censorship of the Hebrew book: a constant challenge
- Questions in halachah: new issues arising
- Appendices : Landmarks in Hebrew printing
- Prolific printers
- Principal locations of Hebrew printing
- Sefarim printed during the period of incunabula
- Description of sefarim mentioned in this book
- Authors mentioned in this book
},
language = {English},
}