Manuel (also Immanuel) Benveniste was another Sephardic printer in 17th century Amsterdam. He was born in Venice in 1608 and died in Amsterdam ca. 1660.
Here we see his 1654 edition of Solomon ibn Verga’s Shevet Yehudah, a history of the…
Title Description - This accordian-fold book depicts three couples, each of a different combination of genders, rendered in grotesque painterly style in shades of black, white, grey, and (for lips and nipples) bright red. The tongues of each couple…
Manasseh (also Menasseh) Ben Israel (1604-1657) was the first publisher of Hebrew books in Amsterdam, setting up shop in 1626. Like Benjamin Franklin a century later, Manasseh was not only a printer, but a writer, community leader, and diplomat.…