Hebrew printing in Bohemia and Moravia
By: Olga Sixtová (ed.) ; translation, Pavel Sládek [and five others]
Contributors: Židovské muzeum v Praze
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Academia; Jewish Museum in Prague
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Prague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9788020022202; 9788087366165
Subjects: Hebrew Printing; History; Printing; Jewish publishing; Jews
Work titles: Hebrejský knihtisk v Čechách a na Moravě. English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.

In English; translated from the Czech.

German, Hebrew, and Latin texts appear in facsimiles.
Table of contents: title: The printed book in 15th- and 16th-century Jewish culture  -- Pavel Sládek; title: Jewish printers and printing presses in Prague 1512-1670 (1672) ;; title: The beginnings of Prague Hebrew typography 1512-1569  -- Olga Sixtová; title: Ornamentation of Prague Hebrew books during the first half of the 16th century as part of Bohemian book design  -- Petr Voit; title: Hebrew printing in Moravia at the beginning of the 17th century  -- Andrea Jelínková; title: Hebrew typography at non-Jewish Bohemian printing houses during the 16th and 17th centuries  -- Lenka Veselá; title: Yiddish books in early modern Prague 1550-1750  -- Shlomo Z. Berger; title: The censorship of Hebrew books in Prague 1512-1670 (1672)  -- Alexandr Putík; title: The fall and rise of Hebrew book printing in Bohemia 1780-1850 -- Iveta Cermanová.