Court Jews, Printers, Book Publishing, and the Beginning of the Haskalah in the German Lands: The Life History of the Wulffian Printing Press as a Case-Study
This article presents the history of a printing press that operated at several places near Berlin during the first half of the eighteenth century, culminating in the epoch-making reprinting of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed in 1742. The press was established in Dessau in 1694 by the court Jew Mo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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European journal of jewish studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-55 |
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Haskalah
Hebrew printing / Jewish
court Jews
acculturation
Guide of the Perplexed
Israel ben Abraham
conversion
Germany
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