Index

Please note: Locators for illustrations and tables appear in boldface.

Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi (Ra’ah), 460 Almoli, Solomon ben Jacob, 288–89 Aaron Samuel ben Moses Shalom of Alshekh, Moses ben Hayyim, 81, 185, 332 Kremenets, 52 The American Hebrew, 238 Abrabanel, Isaac ben Judah, 153–54, 163, The American Israelite, 234–35, 241, 243–44 166, 350 Amram, David, 138, 399, 425, 427 Abrabanel, Samuel, 341, 351 Ancona (Italy), 390–91 Abraham ben Israel, 192–93 angelology, 278–79 Abraham ben Judah Hazzan of Kremenets, anussim (forced converts), 375. See also 357, 360 Marranos Abraham ha-Ger, 93–101 Apologia por la noble nacion de los Judios, The Abudarham. See Sefer Abudarham 114 Abudarham, David ben Joseph, 27, 458 apostates, 159, 161, 349, 440 Abulafia, Abraham, 52, 56 approbations, 345–46. See also under Adas Tzadikim (1865), 198, 199 individual names and works Adelkind, Cornelius, 308, 351, 443–44, Arama, Isaac, 36 447–49 arba’ah kosot. See four cups at the seder Aderet, Solomon ben Abraham (Rashba), Arba’ah Turim 457–58, 460–63 ben Asher, 24, 26 Adrianople (Turkey), 79–90 Constantinople (1493), 410n19 Aesop’s Fables (Naples, 1485), 3, 8, 9 Prostitz (1615), 42 Agostino, Nicolô Degli, 286–87 Soncino (1487), 13 Akedat Yitzhak (Salonika, 1522), 36 Arba’ah Turim Orah Hayyim (Leiria, 1493), akedat Yitzhak depictions, 35–56 29, 32, 33 Arba’ah Turim (Prostitz, 1615), 42 the Ari. See Luria, Isaac ben Solomon (the Be’er Mayim Hayyim (Prostitz, 1616), Ari) 41, 42 Aristotle, 280–81 in Christian works, 37, 40 Aryeh Judah Leib ben Ephraim ha-Kohen, Et Ketz (Amsterdam, 1710), 46, 48, 50 369 Ginnat Egoz (1615), 52–53, 55 Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh), 417n26, 455–56, Magen David (Cracow, 1644), 45 460–63, 462n25 Nishmat Adam (1611), 52, 54 Ashkenazi, Eliezer ben Isaac, 472–73 Olat Yitzhak (1692), 51, 51–52 Ashkenazi, Jacob ben Isaac of Bet ha-Levi Pahad Yitzhak (Amsterdam, 1685), Finzi (Fintsi). See Finzi, Jacob ben Isaac 46–47, 48 of Bet ha-Levi on title-pages, 35 Ashkenazic customs and halakhah, 144, Alantansi, Eliezer ben Abraham, 25 454–56. See also Sephardic customs and Aldabi, Meir ben Isaac, 60 halakhah Alfasi, Isaac (Rif), 239, 455–56, 455n4 astrolabe and anchor pressmark (Usque), Algazi, Solomon ben Abraham, 66, 68, 101, 329, 330, 389, 390 107, 111 Athias, Immanuel, 64 Algazi-Friedlander, Solomon Judah, 417–18, Athias, Joseph, 64–65, 318, 320, 407 420 Atlantic Coast Jewish Annual, 229 Alkabetz, Solomon ben Moses ha-Levi authors. See also patronage and patrons; (grandson), 80, 428, 466, 474 under individual names Alkabetz, Solomon ben Moses ha-Levi ibn remuneration, 286n2 (grandfather), 25 rights, 312–13 480 index

Avodah Zarah (tractate [1712]), 68 Benveniste, Vidal, 347, 349 Avot im Perush Yosef Yabez. See Perush Berab, Jacob, 338–39 Massekhet Avot (Adrianople, 1555) Berab, Joseph, 81 Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David (Hida), 347, Berakhot (tractate) 436, 462 Bomberg (1520), 445 Soncino (1483/84), 6–7, 8, 396, 421–23 Babylonian Talmud, 211–12, 421. See also translation, 229–230, 233–34 Jerusalem Talmud; individual tractate Berlin, Judah. See Liebmann, Jost (Judah names Berlin) Sabbioneta, 448–49 Berman, Issachar ben Naphtali. See translation (see New Edition of the Issachar ben Naphtali ha-Kohen Babylonian Talmud [Rodkinson]) (Berman Ashkenazi) backdates. See book errors Bermann, Issachar ha-Levi, 325 Bahya ben Asher ben Hlava, 20 Bet Eked Sefarim, 51, 372, 396 Baruch ben Moses of Prossnitz. See Bet Yosef, 455–56, 461, 463 Christiani, Friedrich Albrecht Bezah Bashuysen, Heinrich Jacob van, 75–76n32 Soncino (1484), 6–7, 8, 396–98 Basle (Switzerland) and pseudo-Basle, Soncino (“1493”), 396–98 413–14 Bible. See Hebrew Bible Bass, Shabbetai ben Joseph Meshorer, 71, Biblia Hebraica (Soncino, c. 1492), 20–21, 23 76 biblical verses, 371–72, 393–94, 409 Bava Mezia (tractate) Bibliographical Project of the Jewish Cracow (1616–20), 429n19 National and University Library, 372 Faro (?), 431 Bibliography of the Hebrew Book: 1473–1960, Salonika (1651), 94 372 Bayit Hadash (Frankfurt a. Main, 1697), Birkat Eliyahu (Wandsbeck, 1728), 183–85, 342, 343 187 Bayley, Harold, 58 Birkat ha-Zevah (Amsterdam, 1669), 407–9, bear motifs, 57–76 408 elongated form, 63, 63–65, 73 Birkhat David (Lemberg, 1805), 411–13, 412 head-pieces, 58–59 Bi’urim (Venice, 1593), 356–57, 358 Jerusalem Talmud, 66, 67 blessings over wine at the seder. See four Kesef Nivhar (1712), 69–70 cups at the seder Lev Tov (1670), 62–64, 63 Blitz, Jekuthiel ben Isaac, 320, 322 Maginei Erez (1692), 71–72, 72 Bloch, Joseph, 209–10, 245–46n59 Mareh Kohen (1673), 64 Bloch, Joseph Mattathias Lieberman ben Menorat ha-Ma’or (1700s), 70 Benjamin Wolf, 298, 300 Nahalat Binyamin, 64 Bloch, Joshua, 14–15, 398–99, 440 Or Torah (1659), 61 blood libels. See ritual murder Shevilei Emmunah, 60–61 Boaz, Joshua ben Simon Baruch, 388n20, short form, 66, 69 448 tail-pieces, 60–62, 64, 70 Bochner, Hayyim ben Ze’ev, 271–72 Talmud tractates, 70–71, 73, 74–75 Boehm, Samuel ben Isaac, 52, 118–19, 137 Yalkut Hadash (1659), 61, 62 Bomberg, Daniel, 308, 313, 398–400, 400n11 Beckman, Johann Christoph, 51, 325 family, 398, 440 Be’er Mayim Hayyim (Prostitz, 1616), 41, Talmud editions and tractates, 439–447 41–43 title-pages, 441 Benayahu, Meir, 82, 310–11n10, 462 Bomberg, “David,” 399–400 Ben ha-Melekh ve-ha-Nazir (Wandsbeck, book art, 3–4. See also bear motifs; floral 1727), 181 motifs; hare motifs; ornamentation; Benjamin ben Yekuthiel, 133–34, 315 pressmarks Benveniste, Hayyim ben Israel, 112–13, 458 book errors, 329–344, 395–420. See Benveniste, Immanuel, 326, 327, 375, 383, also editor errors; printer errors; 384 publications: variations in