While this post is about the Gabbai family who was previously mentioned with regard to Hebrew printing in Izmir, I want to actually talk about two very important books which they actually printed in Latin letters and in the Spanish language. In 1659 Avraham Gabbai printed two books which were the first books printed in [...]
At the Jewish National and University Library web site they now have online the 13th century Worms Mahzor. The entire contents of the Mahzor, I think, is online in digital photos of excellent quality. In additional there are a number of articles about the mahzor and its restoration.
After Constantinople (קושטא, now Istanbul) and Salonika, Izmir (Smyrna) was the third pillar of Hebrew printing in the Ottoman Empire. The first Hebrew book printed in Izmir was Rosh Yosef, a commentary on the section Orah Hayyim of Yaakov b. Asher’s Tur by Rabbi Yosef Escapa (אישקאפה) who was the rabbi of Izmir. According to [...]
A theme which has been visited on a number of occasions by Bruce Springsteen is redemption. He even described his 1973 song “Incident on 57th Street” as “[featuring] a theme I’d return to often in the future: the search for redemption.” (Songs, 26) For his 1999-2000 tour Bruce Springsteen wrote a song called “Land of [...]
On his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan included a song which Bruce Springsteen years later called “One of the greatest songs about human freedom ever written.” Chimes of Freedom is a bit verbose, but in our opinion Dylan’s imagery is rich and suggestive, with lines like “Tolling for the luckless, the [...]
For those of you with an interest in Biblical studies, via Thoughts on Antiquity a link to Biblical Studies Carnival IV. There is a section on the “Hebrew Bible”, a.k.a. Tanakh, that has some interesting posts and also a section on “The Torah in Early Christianity”.
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