TY - SER
AU - Akiva Aaronson
CY - Nanuet, NY
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><p>Part I. Printing begins&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The printing press: Gutenberg's invention </li><li>The birth of the book: replacing the maunuscript </li><li>The first fifty years: pioneers&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part II. Printing develops&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The sixteenth century: years of growth and establishment </li><li>The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Amsterdam dominates Europe </li><li>The nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the industrial revolution and Eastern Europe&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part III. Printing flourishes&nbsp;</p><ul><li>She'eilos u'teshuvos (Responsa): proliferate with printing </li><li>The Pesach haggadah: "in each and every generation"</li></ul><p>Part IV. Printing prevails Persecution and censorship of the Hebrew book: a constant challenge&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Questions in halachah: new issues arising </li><li>Appendices : Landmarks in Hebrew printing </li><li>Prolific printers </li><li>Principal locations of Hebrew printing </li><li>Sefarim printed during the period of incunabula </li><li>Description of sefarim mentioned in this book </li><li>Authors mentioned in this book</li></ul>
PB - Feldheim Publishers
PP - Nanuet, NY
PY - 2014
SN - 97811598269567
EP - 231 pp.
TI - People of the Book: Five Hundred Years of the Hebrew Book from the Beginning of Printing until the Twentieth Century
ER -