The Early Jewish Printed Book: Episode 1

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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

start with the early printed book. And so we'll leave oursel room in the future to discuss manuscripts, which I'm not really going to discuss here, things that are prior to print, and then later on print, which we'll touch on a little bit, but that's not going to be the focus of this series. Additionally, as we start this series, I think it's important, and this is a little hard because we're doing this audio and not video, but it's important to explain print. You know, I'm asked this all the time, Michelle, I'm sure you asked this all the time, is what is print? How do things come to be printed? And it's so important even today when we have Microsoft Word and notes and Google Docs Microsoft Word and notes and Google Docs and printing is laser printed. We're going to explain all these things mean, but when it started off, movable type, what a printing press was like, what a printing house was like, these are things that are so important and they're still important to us today even in the digital age with Safaria and other digital online uh programs. It's so important for us and just one example as we'll get to just right here at the beginning where we have the garam and we always talk about the and usually even though we'll talk about sino we're really referring to like bombberg and referring like the first print and how important it was but like what was that

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1. 1:33start with the early printed book. And so we'll leave oursel room in the future to…
2. 7:10the ink would be um adhered to the paper really tightly. And then you pull it…
3. 13:16get into sizes we can talk about sizes here >> no I I think we should…
4. 19:28to print um inv this is in paras says the just to um quote it is…
5. 25:02too. Yeah, that'll be important because to see what they printed, you can go back and…
6. 31:15because it's what rashi it's what the commentaries were printed in. Of course, and I have…
7. 37:22says right he says he starts talking about different things. So he gives a little bit…
8. 43:00how the the activity of a press there's uh there's a caulifon in another one of…
9. 49:07many stories. >> The press in Spain and in Portugal come to an end because the…
10. 55:12did actually use Rashi. Rashi was standard for everybody on Gimarra. But if you look at…

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