קדושין

Kidushin Guadalajara

Atlantic Coast

1482 Talmud printed in Sephardic

fashion, without Tosafot

4

משלי

Mishle w/Radak Lisbon

Atlantic Coast

1482 Early example of distinct

fonts for Bible and commentary

4

טור אורח חיים

Tur Orah Hayim Hijar

Atlantic Coast

1485 First use of a printers' mark

in a Hebrew book

4

אבודרהם

Abudarham Lisbon

Atlantic Coast

1490 First commentary printed in

life of author

4

De antiquitate

Judaica

Jewish Antiquities

Augsburg

Germanic

1470 First Josephus imprint

4

Errores Judaeorum ex Talmud extracti

Errores Judaeorum ex

Talmud extracti

Augsberg

Germanic

before 1473 Christian work on the errors

in the Talmud

3

In aller übung der vernunft

Contra perfidos Judaeos (German)

Esslingen, Germanic

1477 Contains a short Hebrew grammar, with woodcut

Hebrew types

3

Liber Chronicarum

Nuremberg Chronicle

Nuremberg

Germanic

1493 Includes woodcut

illustration of the Jews murdering Simon of Trent

3

בחינת עולם

Behinat 'Olam

Mantua

Italy

1474 Arranged and printed by Estellina Conat, first book

printed by a woman

5

נופת צופים

Nofet Tsufim

Mantua

Italy

1475 First Hebrew book printed in

the life of the author

4

רש"י על התורה

Rashi on the Pentateuch

Reggio di Calabria

Italy

1475 First dated Hebrew book

3

תלמוד: ברכות

Talmud Bavli: Masekhet Berakhot

Soncino

Italy

1483 First Talmud with modern

layout (Rashi + Tosafot)

4

משל הקדמוני

Meshal ha-Kadmoni

Brescia

Italy

1491 First Hebrew illustrated

book.

4

ערוך

‘Arukh

Rome

Italy

1469-1471

Lexicon of Talmudic and Midrashic Terms

4

שאלות תשובות

Rashba Responsa

Rome

Italy

1469-73

First collection of responsa

4

אגור

Agur

Naples

Italy

1487-1492

First book with a rabbinic approbation

4

מורה נבוכים

Moreh nevukhim

Rome

Islamic World

1473-1475 First work of Jewish

philosophy to be printed

3

ברוך אתה בבואך

Barukh atah be-vo'ekha…

Cairo, Islamic World

c. 1400 Earliest example of printed

Hebrew (block print on paper), found in Cairo

Geniza

6

טורים הארבע

Arba’ah turim

Constantinople

Islamic World

1493 First book printed in any

language in Ottoman Empire

4

הקאנון

Canon of Medicine

Naples

Islamic World

1492 Hebrew translation of

Avicenna’s medical work

4

מרכבת המשנה

Mirkevet ha-Mishnah

Cracow

E. Europe

1535 Early Cracow imprint;

includes Yiddish

2

חטאתהזאת תורת

Zot torat ha-Hatat

Cracow

E. Europe

1570 First halakhic work of the

Rama

3

זרה מסכת עבודה

Masekhet ‘Avodah zarah

Cracow, E. Europe

1580 Printed in Poland because

banned/censored in W. Europe.

2

עם ערוך שולחןא"הרמ הגהות

Shulhan ‘Arukh

Crakow

E.Europe

1578 With the commentary of the Rama, uniting Ashkenazi and

Sephardi halakha

3

הגדה

Hagadah

Prague

Germanic

1526 Earliest illustrated hagadah,

standard for future illustrated hagadot

3

מידות ספר

Sefer midot [Orhot tsadikim]

Izny

Germanic

1542 First ed., book of mussar, in

Yiddish

2

Genoa Psalterium

Polyglot Psalms (Arabic, Greek,

Hebrew)

Geneva, Germanic

1516 First Polyglot portion of the

Bible

3

Portae Lucis

אורה שערי Augsburg

Germanic

1516 Printed by Christian

Hebraists (Latin)

3

משנה תורה

Mishneh Torah

Venice, Italy

1551 Created a fued between two printers, involved pope, led

to the burning of the Talmud in 1553

2

תלמוד

Talmud Bavli

Venice

Italy

1523 First complete edition of the

Babylonian Talmud

6

זוהר

Zohar

Mantua

Italy

1558 First edition of the Zohar (Cremona ed began the

following year)

3

ספר מנהגים

Sefer Minhagim

Venice

Italy

1589

Illustrated, Yiddish

3

עקדת יצחק

‘Akedat Yitshak

Salonika

Islamic World

1522 Sermons on the Pentateuch;

very popular among Sephardi Jews in Salonika

3

מדרש תהלים

Midrash Tehilim

Salonika

Islamic World

1515 One of the first Salonika

imprints

3

קהלת יעקב

Kehilat Ya'akov

Safed

Islamic World

1578 One of the first imprints in

the Holy Land

3

אבודרהם

Abudarham

Fez

Islamic World

1517 Second book printed on

African continent

3

זוטא עולם סדר

Chronologia Hebraeorum maior

Paris

Atlantic Coast

1572 Latin translation of Seder

‘Olam for Christian use

2

De accentibus …linguae Hebraicae

De accentibus et orthographia linguae

Hebraicae

Hagenau (Alsace)

Atlantic Coast

1518 Reuchlin on Hebrew

2

Vetus Testamentu[m] multiplici lingua

Complutensian Polyglot Bible

Alcalá de Henares, Atlantic Coast

1514-1517 1st complete polyglot Bible

3

תנ"ך

Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim

Paris

Atlantic Coast

1539-1544 Printed by the Estienne

Press, known for its beauty

3

מסכת פורים

Masekhet Purim

Crakow

E. Europe

1640

Yiddish parody

2

יקותיאל דת

Dat Yekuti’el

Zolkiew

E. Europe

1696 Poetic account of the 613

Mitsvot

2

Historia de’ riti hebraici

Riti hebraici

Paris

Atlantic Coast

1637 First vernacular description

of Judaism by a Jew for a non-Jewish audience

3

Hope of Israel

Hope of Israel

London

Atlantic Coast

1650 First English translation of

Mikveh Yisrael

2

To His Highnesse the Lord Protector…

To His Highnesse the

Lord Protector…

London

Atlantic Coast

1655 Led to Jews being officially allowed back into England

2

Bay Psalm Book

Bay Psalm Book

Cambridge

Atlantic Coast

1640 First example of Hebrew in the New world (block print)

6

וראינה צאינה

Tsenerene

Hanau

Germanic

1622 First extant edition; t.p. lists

Basel - YIVO Encyclopdia says it's Hanau

3

שני לוחות הברית

Shene luhot ha-berit

Amsterdam

Germanic

1648 Written as an ethical will;

had a major impact on Hassidism.

2

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Tractatus theologico-

politicus

Hamburg, Germanic

1670 Spinoza’s major work; he

had been excommunicated nearly 15 years earlier

3

שערי אורה

Sha’are orah

Cracow

E. European

1600 Kabbalah; last edition of this

work for over 100 years

2

שפתי ישנים

Sifte Yeshenim

Amsterdam

Germanic

1680 First Jewish bibliography

written by a Jew

2

הגדה

Hagadah

Amsterdam

Germanic

1695 First hagadah to include copper engravings and a

map

3

לב טוב

Lev Tov

Cracow

E. Europe

1641 Ethical work

Printed in Yiddish

3

שמעוני ילקוט

Yalkut Shim'oni

Livorno, Italy

1649 One of the first books

printed at Livorno, which would rise to prominence in

later centuries

2

שירים אשר לשלמה

Shirim asher li-Shelomoh

Venice, Italy

1623 First polyphonic Hebrew

printed music. Maybe first Hebrew printed music at all

3

יבין מצולה

Yeven Metsulah

Venice

Italy

1653 Detailed description of the horrors of the Chmielnicki

massacres

2

יהודה שערית

She'erit Yehuda

Salonika

Islamic World

1600 Commentary on the Shulhan

Arukh

2

הליכות אלי

Halikhot Eli

Izmir

Islamic World

1662 The author was forced to flee Izmir because he was

against Sabbatai Zevi

2

מלך מסע

Masa Melekh

Salonika

Islamic World

1601 On community

administration, based on Hoshen Mishpat

2

בית יהודה

Bet Yehudah

Venice

Italy

1634-1635 Author writes about the

attacks on printers by the Inquisition

1

כסף נבחר

Kesef Nivhar

Damascus

Islamic World

1605 First book printed in Syria; no

printing again in Damascus until the 20th century

3

Dickdook leshon gnebreet

Hebrew Textbook Cambridge, USA

Atlantic Coast

1735 First book using Hebrew

type in America

3

Evening Service of Roshashanah

Translation of the Prayerbook

New York, USA

Atlantic Coast

1761 One of the 1st imprints for

Jews in the New World

4

תולדות יעקב יוסף

Toldot Ya’akov Yosef

Korets

E. Europe

1780 Primary work of teachings of

Ba'al Shem Tov. First Ed.

3

צפנת פנח

Tsafnat Pa’neah

Korets

E. Europe

1782 Written by student of the

BeShT; works were burned by Mitnagdim

3

Bab Musi = Porta Mosis

Perush ha-Mishna

Oxford

Islamic World

1654 First Judeo-Arabic imprint. Maimonides’ commentary

on the Mishna

1

סדר התפלה

Seder ha-tefila 'al derekh ha-sod

Zolkiew

E. Europe

1781 First complete Ashkenazi

Siddur with Lurianic prayers.

2

כתר שם טוב

Keter Shem Tov

Zolkiew

E. Europe

1794-1795 First anthology of the

teachings of the Ba’al Shem Tov

2

... תורה חומשי חמשה ם"והרשב י"רש

Rashbam’s commentary on Torah

Berlin, Germanic

1705 Printed from ms owned by

Oppenheim (collector impacting production)

2

Estos son los perakim

Pirke Avot

Venice

Italy

1707 Includes Ladino in Roman

characters

1

Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses

Religious Ceremonies

Amsterdam Germanic

1723-1743 Extensive illustrations of the

religions of the world; section on Judaism

3

מסילת ישרים

Mesilat Yesharim

Amsterdam Germanic

1740 Ethical text by philosopher

Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto

2

שלוםהנתיבות ספר

Sefer Netivot ha-shalom

Berlin

Germanic

1783 Moses Mendelsohn’s

commentary on the Bible

3

הקונטיריס סדר

Seder ha-kunteres

Avignon

Atlantic Coast

1765

Prayers for year round according to the unique rite

of the Comtat Venaissin

2

תורת חיים

Torat Hayim

Salonika

Islamic World

1713-1722 1st book to include responsa

for New World (regarding prayer for rain in Brazil)

2

2

סדר תפלה על המרד באמריקה

Seder Tefilah ‘al ha-Mered be-Amerikah

London

Atlantic Coast

1776 Prayer regarding the

“rebellion” in America

3

טוביה מעשה

Ma'aseh Tuviyah

Venice

Italy

1707 Medical Book; many

illustrations

2

ספר הרשב"ש

Sefer ha-Rashbash

Livorno, Italy

1742 Haskamot detail printer's

efforts to get permission to re-establish printing in

Livorno

1

י"ש מנחת

Minhat Shai

Mantua, Italy

1742-44 A critical Masoretic

commentary on the Bible, based on manuscripts and

print editions

2

מעם לועז

Me-'am Lo’ez

Constantinople

Islamic World

1730 Ladino

2

לישראל חק

Hok le-Yisra’el Cairo

Islamic World

1740 One of the earliest books

printed in Egypt

2

זרע יצחק

Zera' Yitshak

Tunis

Islamic World

1768 First book printed in Tunisia

2

ט"שעהב שבחי

Shivhe ha-Besht

Laszczow

E. Europe

1815 Hagiographic collection of

stories about the Ba’al Shem Tov

2

משנה ברורה

Mishnah Berurah

Warsaw

E. Europe

1884 "Modern" code of law

1

ל'מעסער דאס

Dos meser'l

St. Petersberg

E. Europe

1886 Beginning of the work of Sholem Aleichem, famed

Yiddish writer

1

בבלי תלמוד

Talmud Bavli

Vilna

E. Europe

1886 Standardized version of the

Talmud

2

ריםונע חטאת

Hat’ot Ne’urim

Vienna/Warsaw

E. Europe

1876-1899 Maskilic literature

1

צדיקים שפתי סדור

Form of prayers…

Philadelphia

Atlantic Coast

1837 1st siddur in America

(Portuguese rite, translation)

1

The twenty-four books of the Holy Scriptures

English Bible

Philadelphia, Atlantic Coast

1853 Important translation of the

Bible by Isaac Leeser

1

Catalogus librorum hebraeorum

Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in

bibliotheca Bodleiana

Berlin

Atlantic Coast

1852-1860

1

קריאי ישרים תפילתסנהדרין שם אנשי העדה

Priere des membres du Sanhedrin

Paris

Atlantic Coast

1807 Publication by the Sanhedrin

(convened by Napoleon)

2

הגדה

Trieste Hagadah

Trieste

Italy

1864 Only early Hagadah to include lithography (58

original engravings)

2

פולין מנהג מחזור

Mahzor minhag Polin

Rodelheim

Germanic

1800-1803 Wolf Heidenheim was an

important publisher of liturgy in clear format

2

Neunzehn Briefe uber Judenthum

Nineteen Letters about Judaism

Altona

Germanic

1836 S. R. Hirsch’s corpus on neo-

Orthodoxy

1

Der Judenstaat

Der Judenstaat

Leipzig

Germanic

1896 Herzl's seminal work on The

Jewish State

2

ד"לש טעם

Ta'am le-shad

Livorno

Italy

1863 Response to ShaDaL's dialogue on Kabbalah

1

בני למחזור מבוא רומא

Mavo le-mahzor

bene Roma

Livorno

Italy

1856 Historical/Critical

introduction to the Mahzor

1

אבות פרק

Perek Avot

Bombay

Islamic World

1822 Hebrew and Arabic in Hebrew characters.

(Lithograph)

2

הבדלה סדר בלערבי

Seder Havdala bil-'Arabi

Algiers

Islamic World

1853 Judeo-Arabic for a Jewish

audience

2

ויטאל חיים ר׳ שבחי

Shivhe R. Hayim Vital

Baghdad

Islamic World

1866 Beginning of Baghdad press

1