"You won't need to see a Rabbi." 500 Years of Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia
"You won't need to see a Rabbi." 500 Years of Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia

Summary/Abstract: In December 1512 a consortium of Jewish printers and financiers in Prague completed the printing of a siddur, a prayer book for weekdays and the Sabbath services. Thanks to its publication, the Bohemian lands became one of the first places – after several localities in Italy, the Iberian peninsula and Constantinople – where there were Hebrew printing presses run by Jewish printers. From then on, Hebrew books were published to varying degrees of intensity in Prague and later in Prostìjov (Prossnitz), Brno (Brünn) and Mikulov (Nikolsburg) until the first half of the 20th century. The staff at the Jewish Museum in Prague (JMP) prepared several projects to commemorate the event. The results of research lasting for several years are presented in the collaborative monograph Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia edited by Olga Sixtová (Prague 2012, ISBN 978-80-200-2220-2).1

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