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Rashi and His Commentary on the Torah
Two objects carry the name of Rashi into the modern world. The first is a person: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, born in Troyes in Champagne around February 1040 and buried there in July…
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Daniel Bomberg
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Daniel Bomberg and the Venice Hebrew Press
Between the spring of 1516 and the early months of 1517, a Christian printer from Antwerp named Daniel Bomberg issued from his new workshop in the Frezzaria, a narrow street in the…
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Daniel Bomberg’s Venice Press
On a Sabbath afternoon in October 1553, in the Piazza San Marco of Venice, a large pile of Hebrew books was set alight by officers of the Papal Inquisition. Among the books…