Cover image for Portable homelands and circumambulatory reading : Hebrew printing and nineteenth-century translocal publishing networks
Portable homelands and circumambulatory reading : Hebrew printing and nineteenth-century translocal publishing networks
Title:
Portable homelands and circumambulatory reading : Hebrew printing and nineteenth-century translocal publishing networks / by Sydney J. Shep.
Author/Creator:
Publication:
[England : [Publishing History], 2012.
Physical description:
pages [97]-119 ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Title from caption.

Offprint of an article originally published in: Publishing history, no. 72 (2012).

Includes bibliography.
Summary:
In 1845, Emanuel & Moses Wolfe printed a bilingual Order of Service for the consecration of the Jewish synagogue on Argyle Street in Hobart, backed with Hebrew text and letterpress printed, and local bookbinder and publisher George Rolwegan issued a collection of lithographed music featuring Hebrew script. However, when in 1853 Rolwegan published his 'Calendar of all days and nights, Sabbaths and new moons, seasons, holydays, and fasts, during the twelve months of the year : in the Hebrew and English languages', compiled specifically for the southern hemisphere by Australia's first Jewish public servant Phineas Moss, the book was typeset and letterpress printed not by a Hobart firm but instead by a London printer, Abraham Pierpont Shaw. Sydney J. Shep explores "what kinds of connected histories between a compiler, a printer, and a publisher enabled a work like the Calendar not only to travel into print but also to exemplify the portable homeland of the wandering Jew... and, finally, how did mobile members of the book trades in the long nineteenth century treat the world as one global comunication network and fashion a translocal empire of print?"
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1201633