Asher Parenzo
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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