Slavuta, Zhytomyr, and Vilna: The Intersecting Stories of the Romm and Shapira Publishing Houses

The article outlines key intersections between two Eastern European Jewish printing businesses during the nineteenth century. The first is the Shapira printing house, located first in Slavuta, and later in Zhytomyr. The second is the Romm printing and publishing house, Vilna, the largest Jewish prin...

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1. VerfasserIn: Gebel, Adah 1982- (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
In: European journal of jewish studies
Jahr: 2024, Band: 18, Heft: 1, Seiten: 79-105
weitere Schlagwörter:B Babylonian Talmud
B Vilna
B Zhytomyr
B Russian Jewry
B Slavuta
B Shapira family
B Romm family
B Jewish printing and publishing
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Zusammenfassung:The article outlines key intersections between two Eastern European Jewish printing businesses during the nineteenth century. The first is the Shapira printing house, located first in Slavuta, and later in Zhytomyr. The second is the Romm printing and publishing house, Vilna, the largest Jewish printing house in Eastern Europe at the time. The first significant interaction between these two printing houses was a fierce disagreement over the printing rights of the Babylonian Talmud. However, they progressed to an economic cooperation in further printings of the Babylonian Talmud. Eventually, Romm’s printing house purchased Shapira’s printing house and closed it as part of preparations for the printing of another edition of the Talmud. The cultural contexts discussed in the article are part of and shed light on predominant tensions within European Jewish society at the time: the dispute between the Ḥasidim and the Mitnaggedim, and the dispute between maskilim and traditionalists.
ISSN:1872-471X
Enthält:Enthalten in: European journal of jewish studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1872471x-bja10069