Asher ben Jacob Parenzo (Hebrew: אשר בן יעקב פורינץ; fl. 1580–1600) was a Hebrew printer in Venice.
Biography edit
Parenzo was a member of a prominent printing family, which included his brother Meir, one of the best-known Jewish printers of the period.[1] Their father Jacob, also a printer,[2] was a native of Parenzo om Venetian Dalmatia.[3]
He was employed by Giovanni Bragadin in printing a large number of works of Hebrew literature, among them Isaac Abravanel's commentary on the Pentateuch (1579), the Tanakh (1586), and the fourth part of the Turim (1594).
References edit
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Elbogen, Ismar (1905). "Parenzo, Asher b. Jacob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 525.
- ^ Marcus, Jacob R.; Saperstein, Marc (2015). The Jews in Christian Europe: A Source Book, 315–1791. Hebrew Union College Press. p. 584. ISBN 9780822981237.
- ^ Amram, David Werner (1909). The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy: Being Chapters in the History of the Hebrew Printing Press. Philadelphia: Julius H. Greenstone. p. 367.
- ^ Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Parenzo". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 15 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 641. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4. Gale CX2587515420.
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