Zeev Gries’s analysis of what books were being published and where shows the importance of the printed book in disseminating religious and secular ideas, crea

This book offers the reader a voyage in the new world that opened up to the enlightened Jewish reader of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time when th

"This volume seeks to delineate the history of the production, dissemination, and reception of texts from the earliest pictograms of the mid-4th millennium to r

"The story of the first Jewish public library in Europe"--

As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914