Research Catalog

Title

Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana : treasures of Jewish booklore : marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Leeser Rosenthal, 1794-1994 / edited by Adri K. Offenberg, Emile G.L. Schrijver and F.J. Hoogewoud, with the collaboration of Lies Kruijer-Poesiat ; color photographs by Iman Heystek.

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Offenberg, A. K.
• Schrijver, Emile G. L.
• Hoogewoud, F. J.
• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana.

Description

xii, 135 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.

Alternative Title

Treasures of Jewish booklore

Subject

• Rosenthal, Eliezer, 1794-1868. > Library
• Rosenthal, Eliezer, 1794-1868. > Library > Catalogs
• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana
• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana > Catalogs
• Jewish literature > Catalogs
• Rare books > Catalogs
• Manuscripts, Hebrew > Catalogs
• Rare books > Amsterdam > Catalogs
• Manuscripts, Hebrew > Amsterdam > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies – Catalogs
• Catalogs
• Bibliographies – Catalogs.
• Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Fromm Leeser Rosenthal to today's Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana / Adri K. Offenberg – The completion of the Esslingen Machzor / Gabrielle Sed-Rajna – Sefer Or Zarua and the legend of Rabbi Amnon / Menahem Schmelzer – Hannah bat Menahem Zion finished her copy of the Sefer Mitzwot Katan / Colette Sirat – Mordecai Finzi's copy of a work by Averroes / Malachi Beit-Arié – The Defensorium Fidei contra Judæos printed at Utrecht / Gerard van Thienen – Four Italian Judaica incunabula / Dennis E. Rhodes – The first printed book produced at Constantinople / Adri K. Offenberg – Elijah Levita's Shemot Devarim printed at Isny / Herbert C. Zafren – Christopher Plantin's Biblia Regia / Elly Cockx-Indestege – A Hebrew map in a work by Hugh Broughton / Jan. W. H. Werner – Isaac Franco's memorandum on the legal position of Sephardi Jews in Holland / Arend H.^
• Huussen Jr – Nicolaes Briot and Menasseh ben Israel's first Hebrew types/ John A. Lane – Benedictus de Spinoza / Richard H. Popkin – Jacob Judah Leonn Templo's broadsheet of his model of the Temple / Adri K. Offenberg – A show of hands by the Sephardi writing-master Iehdah Machabeu / Ton Croiset van Uchelen – An illustrated Minhagim book printed in Amsterdam / Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig --^
• Saul Levi Mortera's magnum opus / Herman P. Salmon – The Sabbatean movement in Amsterdam / Yosef Kaplan – Romeijn de Hooghe and the Portugueses Jews in Amsterdam / Judith C. E. Belinfante – Two Yiddish Bibles printed in Amsterdam / Marion Aptroot – Isaac [Fernando] Cardoso's Las excelencias de los Hebreos / Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi – Daniel Levi de Barrios's Triumpho del govierno popular / Wilhelmina Chr. Pieterse – Two Hebrew books with silver bindings / Karel A. Citroen – Hebrew printing on coloured paper / Brad Sabin Hill – Stephanus Morinus's Exercitationes de lingua primæva / Nico A. van Uchelen – A Portuguese festival poem from Amsterdam / Harm den Boer – The portrait of Jechiel Michel ben Nathan of Lublin / Anna E. C. Simoni – The Grand Tour of Abraham Levi ben Menahem Tall / Emile G. L.^
• Schrijver – Nathan ben Simson of Meseritz's Prayers for the New Moon / Edward van Voolen – A 'Konstboeken-binderij' luxury binding / Jan Storm van Leeuwen – The Rosenthaliana leipnik Haggadah / Iris Fishof – Eleasar Soesman's Mohar Yisrael / Jan Wim Wesselius – The 'Otiyyot Amsterdam' of Jacob ben Judah Leib Shamas / Emile G. L. Schrijver – The Tablets of the Law at the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana / Shalom Sabar – The priestly blessing: publishers' bindings by Proops / Kees Gnirrep – David Friedländer's Lesebuch für jüdische Kinder / Zohar Shavit – A Yiddish chronicle of the Batavian Republic / Ariane D. Zwiers – The Diskursen of the Neie and the Alte Kille / Jozeph Michman – Leeser Rosenthal's only Yiddish manuscript / Renate G.^
• Fuks-Manfeld – The Protocol of the Jewish community of Uithoorn / Odette Vlessing – The Binger manuscripte: the case of the vanishing illustrator / Marja Keyser – The Hebrew textbooks of David Abraham Lissaur / Irene E. Zwiep – Hanover loses Leeser Rosenthal's library / Norbert P. van den Berg – The Rosenthaliana's Jacob Israel de Haan Archive / Marijke T. C. Stapert-Eggen – Sephardi rabbis in Jerusalem on modern agricultural settlements / Yehoshua Kaniel --^
• Theodor Herzl/s Der Judenstaat published in Vienna / Michael Heymann –George Rosenthal and the Spinoze House Society / Theo van der Werf – The Lehreen/DeLima sale / Lies Kruijer-Poesiat – Jewish book-plates in the Netherlands / Philip van Praag – Traditional Amsterdam synagogue melodies / Hans Bloemendal – Emanuel Querido and his publishing house / Lotte Hellinga-Querido – The return of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana--but not without damage / F. J. Hoogewoud – An ambitious publication of the Quid Novum Press / Albert van der Heide – Recent limited editions of the poetry of Saul van Messel / Henriëtte Boas -- Notes and suggestions for further reading – Index of names.

ISBN

9053560882

OCLC

• 32116020
• SCSB-13385839

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library