In 1577, approximately 120 years after Gutenberg’s invention, R. Eliezer Ashkenazi established the first printing press in the Land of Israel in the city of Safed. This Jewish printer, who had learned ...
Safed in the sixteenth century was both a thriving center of Jewish life in the Land of Israel and a node in a wider Sephardic world. In this setting, a young scholar, R. Yom Tov Tzahalon, wrote ...