Auction 8
Oct 14, 2018
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Israel
Rav Shach 25 Beitar Ilit
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LOT 299:
שלום איטליה
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Etching, Menashe Ben Israel, founder of the first printing press in Amsterdam - 1643.
A copper engraving by the Jewish artist Shalom Mordechai Italy (Salom Italia) with a portrait of Menashe Ben - Israel with an inscription in Latin. 1643.
Rabbi Menashe ben Israel (1604- 1657. Otzar HaRabbanim 13631), rabbi, preacher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam, later to become one of the most important publishing houses in the Jewish communities in the Diaspora, worked to bring the Jews back to England after The expulsion.
Shalom Mordechai de Italy, the most famous Jewish artist of the 17th century.
signed. Pasted on cardboard. Size of the engraving: 11x15 cm The size of the cardboard: 23.5x18 cm.
Very good condition.
