Tablet Magazine
Subscribe Today
Subscriber
- Full weekday access to The Scroll
- Monthly print magazine (12 issues a year)
- Full access to Tablet’s digital articles
Subscriber
- $50 discount
- Full weekday access to The Scroll
- Monthly print magazine (12 issues a year)
- Full access to Tablet’s digital articles
Member
- All yearly benefits
- “Founding Member” tax deduction ($110)
- Tablet hat of your choice, embroidered with “Founding Member”
- Premium event access
- All Founding Member benefits
- Invitation for you and a guest to private Sinai Awards dinner
- “Macher” tax deduction ($1550)
- A trip to the Ohel with Liel Leibovitz, naming input on the next Tablet baby, and more. Long story short: You’re part of the mischpacha.
The Perils of Publishing
The historian Chen Malul recounts how the strife between two Christian publishing houses in 16th century Venice led to the burning of Jewish books.


Frontispiece of Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah printed by the Guistiniani press. From the National Library of Israel collection
the family ambron


Courtesy JTS
This illuminated “passport” dates to 1774 and documents the extension of privileges to the Jewish Italian buisnessman Salomone Ambron by the prelate Albani Gionanni Francesco (1770-1803). A collection of such documents attest to the reliance of Church powers on the Ambron family for military supplies, “to supply the French troops in Livorno,” for instance, or“supply furniture and uniforms to Ferrera’s soldiers.” This collection is digitized and is part of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Special Collections.