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This is the bookstamp of the Bibliothek der Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (est. 1870), the Library of the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies. This rabbinical seminary was established in Berlin under the direction of Abraham Geiger,…

This is the bookstamp of the Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar zu Breslau (est. 1854), the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. It was the first modern rabbinical seminary in Central Europe and ideologically aligned itself in the middle between…

This is the bookstamp of the Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin Bibliothek (est. 1898), the Jewish community library of Berlin.

From the time of its founding until it was closed by the Nazis, the library was an important scientific resource for both…

This is the bookstamp of the library of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews (est. 1809).

This Anglican missionary society, which still operates today, was established in order to promote the growth of the Hebrew…

This is the bookstamp of To'elet (Tongeleth in the Dutch Jewish pronunciation), a Hebrew literary society founded in Amsterdam in 1815 by Samuel Mulder and Mozes Loonstein. The society was created as part of the Dutch Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)…

This is the bookstamp of Yehuda (also Yehudah or Judah) Soniker, a rabbi who lived in Brooklyn, NY. Soniker was born in Erets Yisrael (Palestine) in 1885 and later immigrated to the United States with his wife and two children.

He was a supporter…

On the title page of most older Hebrew books, the year of publication is given through a chronogram. This distinctive convention is enabled by the dual function of the Hebrew alphabet, which serves as both letters and numbers. The chronogram is…

Like many 16th century printers of Hebrew books, Ṿitsentso Ḳonṭi (also Vincenzo Conti) of Cremona, Italy was a Christian who employed Jewish assistants. On this copy of Sefer Tashbets, Ḳonṭi employed a particularly elaborate printer's…

Daniel Bomberg was a Christian printer active in Venice from approximately 1517 to 1549. It is believed he was born sometime in the 1480s in Antwerp to Cornelius van Bomberghen , who taught him how to print and make types. There is debate as to when…

David de Kastro (also de Castro) Tartas (1630-1698) worked for the printer Manasseh ben Israel in Amsterdam before setting up his own press in 1662. In 1678 he became a member of the Amsterdam Printers' Guild, competing with Uri ben Aaron ha-Levi,…