Who Were the Soncinos? Jews and the Gutenberg Revolution(s)

[@daniel-meir]

In modern Italian pronounced as sonchino.

[@jansteinvonsquidmeirsteen2256]

Great presentation and you're funny.

[@superanonymous2020]

Thank you!

[@shawnmulberry774]

Incunabula!

[@mendyross6121]

Big fan! Maybe you can do a lecture on the division of Poland in the 18th century and how it affected the Jews financially, politically , and spiritually.

[@bryanfreedman70]

Thank you for this wonderful lecture. Just a small correction, Soncino is pronounced son-chee-no in italian

[@_yiddishkeit]

the poem about how the founder of the jewish printing press wanted to fill the world with knowledge and only charge silver not gold.... gave me chills!

[@user-or7ji5hv8y]

I always look forward to the jokes.

[@dreznik]

Loved the presentation! One note: there's a word for reused vellum manuscripts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest

[@dawnschaeffer5728]

Thank you for another wonderful lecture. I am also of the generation that used card catalogs and hard texts and I value the education I received from doing the legwork. In my experience I have often encountered people who no longer KNOW how to calculate in their heads or apply common sense tactics to everyday problems. The internet, although a useful tool, is also a place of wild inaccuracies and some - even those within my own family - seem to have lost the ability to reason for themselves or to ask critical questions. If this trend continues, do you see a general 'dumbing-down' of Western civilization? I imagine the Catholic church had the same questions when the Bible was widely disseminated and available to people without the 'interpretation' of the professionals.

[@briankelly5828]

Thank you for the very interesting talk - I'm impressed by the extraordinary range of topics and persons you cover and I never cease to learn something new. I empathised a lot with what you had to say about the pre-internet ways of doing research, having completed my doctorate on the Books of Chronicles in 1993 with the help of trips to Cambridge, inter-library loan and even airmail letters to scholars in the US who kindly sent me offprints. I remember as well the digloss Soncino texts! I take the point of what you say in the latter part of your lecture about the revolution in learning but I wonder if our steam age ways of learning also helped us to become more thorough scholars? Handling printed books made me read the entire text on many occasions, not just excerpts, and I do wonder if the online approach has the negative effects of atomising and decontextualising knowledge. This isn't a new complaint, I know, but I think it's valid. The ease of obtaining recondite information comes with the downside of not really knowing what that bit of information properly denotes. A second related worry (echoing David Goldman aka 'Spengler') is that the internet retards the development of writing and spelling skills in the young. In other words, the human brain and its development have been unchanged for thousands of years and there are natural limits to what it can do and learn.

[@finneganricardo712]

i guess im asking the wrong place but does anyone know a trick to get back into an instagram account..? I somehow lost my password. I love any tricks you can give me!

[@heidewarncke4268]

Thank you so much for your inspiring lecture!! Have you ever visited the Ets Haim Library in Amsterdam? It is the oldest active Jewish Library in the World (402 years old) and it is amazing.

[@m.c.fromnyc2187]

In the popular tradition of the Arab Jews, men are honored by calling them as 'Father of so-and-so'. Example: Abu Mussa, meaning Father of Moses. Since they give the name of their male firstborn after his paternal grandfather's name, Abu Mussa will get this honorific moniker by his friends even before having any children, as a wish for him to beget a son that will be called Mussa, after the grandfather. In the Arab patriarchal culture, a male child is desired, and a man will never be called Abu Sarah, for example. Similarly, if Sarah is the firstborn daughter, she would be named after her paternal grandmother. Contrary to the Ashkenazic custom, children are called after their living or dead grandparents. If living, the grandparents will be very happy to see their names carried over to the next generations. Great lecture! I am marathon-viewing your past videos.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Interesting

[@EJ-zj7tt]

"because no one else was doing it" - no. And you know you're obfuscating. It's because they would charge interest and the reason no one else was doing it is because it was consider immoral to charge interest. It was aginst the religious code of everyone but the Jews.

[@jsw7814]

What does the Bible say exactly?

[@annaklein6765]

Cutting paper art is not lost, it exists in Poland where I am from and I know at least two great artists not to mention a lot of workshops. The artists are Marta Golab and Monika Krajewska

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thank you!

[@angland]

Thank you for another very interesting lecture.

[@charlottealexander2329]

Great lecture Dr A. Paper cutting is alive and well. There’s an online store in eretz that sells the work of an artist in this field. Hope you’ll give a lecture on the subject.

[@eliashalabe8950]

My last name is Halabe because my family moved from Halav to Sham

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Interesting

[@jsw7814]

Do Halabis accept you now 😅

[@naomikoopmans]

Beautiful words, thank you Dr. Abramson.

[@11UncleBooker22]

The Jokes at the beginning remind me of Henny Youngman humor.

[@jaronimo1976]

31:33 The doctor suddenly disappears!

[@richardwendling4030]

The rebbi's at Yeshiva did a better job!