Daniel Bomberg (d. 1549) was an early printer of Hebrew language books. A Christian himself, born in Antwerp, he was primarily active in Venice between 1516 and 1549.
He produced the editio princeps of the Mikraot Gedolot , the Rabbinic Bible , consisting of the Hebrew text plus rabbinical commentaries, between 1516 and 1517, and the first complete Talmud, between 1520 and 1523.
Bomberg found a ready audience among the Jews of Italy, whose numbers had been swelled by exiles from Spain and Portugal. Bomberg's presses eventually produced some 230 Hebrew books, and his innovations in Hebrew typography set the standard for later printers.
Reference
- A. N. Habermann, Ha-Madpiss Daniel Bomberg u-Reshimat Sifre Beth Defusso (The Printer Daniel Bomberg and the List of Books published by his Press) (1978) in Hebrew
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