An exploration of the history and editing of the first printing of the Talmud Yerushalmi.
Know someone who would love this shiur?
What’s said in this shiur
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.
hi everyone welcome to another edition of the saram chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Dr Yakov Mayer Who is historian of the history of the Jewish book and he was a post-doctoral f fellow at Harvard and will be at now fourth at the Hebrew University and he's the author of The recently published book called 1523 so beginning of print and thei the first edition printed in Venice in 15 23 this is published by Magus University this is published by Magus University press and is in is in irit not in English for those interested and and uh we'll be discussing this book in the beginning of print especially of thei and how it was worked on and those kind of things so thank you Dr mayor for joining me thank you wonderful to be here so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background and so I grew up in Jerusalem studed in few mostly by and after that I went to the and and I and after that I went to the and and I started in the small call of Shalom where I studied in Gil and after that I went to the Hebrew University where I studed in the tal department where I focused More on tation University under the supervision of Professor and Professor M guided me in this uh this uh disseration that become became this book um and then
Jump to a moment
- 0:02hi everyone welcome to another edition of the saram chatter podcast on this episode of the…
- 5:41it I publish in journal it can be found in my Academia edu page um and…
- 11:49before um so in the minute that you have a printed edition of H let's say…
- 17:34police if I can say anything about these Inky fingers maybe I can tell if it…
- 23:47it's and in their publishing house he was he was an editor and he was an…
- 30:02anything more about him and I'm sure there will be more in this era okay so…
- 35:42tal that we can see in front of us is the creation of Yim according to…
- 41:54be it will it will look like the the the B and with some extra um…
- 48:07publish books in Venice I think it was 1495 or ACC to the the years um…
- 54:27have books anymore because it doesn't have the text anymore there is no loss of data…
Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.
Why is this here?
Before this shiur could appear, it was reviewed against one written standard — the same standard for every video in the library, no exceptions and no algorithm deciding on its own. It was reviewed on July 20, 2026. It is listed under Torah. If you believe something here does not belong, tell us — every challenge is read by a person.
Get the week’s best, by email
One email a week — a handful of approved shiurim and music. No account needed.
Know a family who would use this? Give a Lehallel membership.