Gersonids

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The Gersonids (also called Gersoni) were a Jewish printer family in Prague at the beginning of the 16th century.

The founder Gerson ben Salomo Kohen Katz (1475-1541), (Kaz, hence later Kazische Buchdruckerei ), was a Jewish printer.

family members

literature

  • Charles Wengrov: Kohen. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . Edited by Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd Edition. Volume 12. Macmillan Reference USA, Detroit 2007, pp. 257-258.
  • Salomon Hugo Lieben: Hebrew letterpress printing in Prague in the 16th century. In: Samuel Steinherz (Ed.): The Jews in Prague. Pictures from its thousand-year history . Prague 1927, pp. 88-106 ( online ).
  • Moritz Steinschneider : Gersoni, Gersoniden . In: Ders .: Collected writings. 1. Volume: Scholars-History. Edited by Heinrich Malter and Alexander Marx . Berlin 1925, pp. 13-15 ( online ).
  • Aron Freimann : On the history of Jewish book illustration until 1540. In: Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie 21 (1918), pp. 25–32, here pp. 30–32 ( online ).
  • Leopold Zunz : 8. The Gersonids (1844). In: Ders .: Collected writings. Third volume. Berlin 1876, pp. 191-200 ( online ).

Web links

  • Arno Pařík: Kohen Family. In: YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. August 18, 2010, accessed December 25, 2015 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Moritz Steinschneider : Gersoni, Gersoniden . In: Ders .: Collected writings. 1st volume. Scholars-History , ed. by Heinrich Malter and Alexander Marx . Berlin 1925, pp. 13-15 ( online ); Leopold Zunz : 8. The Gersonids (1844) . In: Ders .: Collected writings. Third volume . Berlin 1876, pp. 191-200 ( online ).