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Yerushalayim ha-benuyah (trans. 'Jerusalem rebuilt') was written by Nachman Isaac Fischmann and Abraham Menachem Mendel Mohr, both from Lemberg, Austria. Fischmann was an author, poet and member of the young Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) group in…

So central was Amsterdam to Hebrew printing that books published elsewhere still sought to link themselves to Amsterdam in the hope that it would increase respect for the product and improve sales. This Talmud commentary by Levi ben Shelomoh (Sefer…

Toftè'arukh was written by Moses ben Mordechai Zacuto (1625-1697), a rabbi, Kabbalist, and poet who lived in Amsterdam. Originally published in Hebrew in 1715, Tofte 'arukh is a play depicting the circles of hell. This version was translated…

This is the stamped book spine of Salomone Servi, a deputy rabbi in Pitigliano, Italy. He was the son of Salomone Servio and Dolce Sadun. He married Debora Lattes (1860-1925), daughter of Isacche Lattes and Giuditta Sadun. They had four children:…

This is the stamped book cover of Haim (also Hayim) Yisrael Romano, a wealthy grain merchant and philanthropist from Constantinople. He was affectionately called “Chilivi Mercado Romano” or “The Master Merchant Romano.” He had a yeshivah in…

This is the stamped book cover of the Evelina de Rothschild Girls' School (est. 1854), the first all-girls school in Palestine. It was originally founded by Dr. Albert Cohen in the Old City of Jerusalem and taught the students domestic trades, such…

This is the stamped book cover of Benjamin Aron de Metz (also Benjamin Wolf Aron de Metz Maarsen), who was born in Amsterdam in 1760.

He was the son of Aron Maharam David de Mets Maarsen and Bele David Frankfort. He married Marianne Leon Keijzer…

This is the signature of Tsebi Hirsch (also Zvi Hirschel) Lehren (1784-1853), a wealthy Dutch merchant and Orthodox rabbi.

In 1810, along with Abraham Prinz and Solomon Rubens, he founded the Pekidim and Amarkalim organization to support and…

Sigmund Seeligmann (1873-1940) was a German-Dutch scholar of Judaism, historian, and a bibliographer. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, Seeligmann came to Amsterdamin 1884, later studying at its rabbinical seminary.

Seeligmann built one of the most…

This is the signature of Shmuel Meier (also Samoil or Samuel) Schon, a Romanian merchant.

Schon was born in Nagyvarad, Romania on October 20th, 1881 to Yosef (Herman) and Miriam (Maria) nee Hoffman. He married Nekha (Nina) nee Porges and they had…