For the present-day publishers, see Soncino Press.
The Soncino family (משפחת שונצינו) is an Italian Ashkenazi Jewish family of printers, deriving its name from the town of Soncino in the duchy of Milan. It traces its descent through a Moses of Fürth, who is mentioned in 1455, back to a certain Moses of Speyer, of the middle of the fourteenth century. The first of the family engaged in printing was Israel Nathan b. Samuel, the father of Joshua Moses and the grandfather of Gershon. He set up his Hebrew printing-press in Soncino in the year 1483, and published his first work, the tractate Berakot, Dec. 19, 1483. The press was moved about considerably during its existence. It can be traced at Soncino in 1483-86; Casalmaggiore, 1486; Soncino again, 1488–90; Naples, 1490–92; Brescia, 1491–1494; Barco, 1494–97; Fano, 1503-6; Pesaro, 1507–20 (with intervals at Fano, 1516, and Ortona, 1519); Rimini, 1521-26. Members of the family were at Constantinople between 1530 and 1533, and had a branch establishment at Salonica in 1532-33. Their printers' mark was a tower.
The last of the Soncinos was Gershom b. Eliezer, a grandson of Gershom b. Moses, who established the first printing press of the Middle East in Cairo circa 1557. It is obvious that the mere transfer of their workshop must have had a good deal to do with the development of the printing art among the Jews, both in Italy and in Turkey. While they devoted their main attention to Hebrew books, they published also a considerable number of works in general literature, and even religious works with Christian symbols.
The Soncino prints, though not the earliest, excelled all the others in their perfection of type and their correctness. The Soncino house is distinguished also by the fact that the first Hebrew Bible was printed there. An allusion to the forthcoming publication of this edition was made by the type-setter of the "Sefer ha-Ikkarim" (1485), who, on page 45, parodied Isa. ii. 3 thus: "Out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the word of the Lord from Soncino" (). Abraham b. Hayyim's name appears in the Bible edition as type-setter, and the correctors included Solomon b. Perez Bonfoi ("Mibhar ha-Peninim"), Gabriel Strassburg (Berakot), David b. Elijah Levi and Mordecai b. Reuben Baselea (Hullin), and Eliezer b. Samuel ("Yad").
The Soncinofamily (משפחת שונצינו) is an Italian Ashkenazi Jewish family of printers, deriving its name from the town of Soncino in the duchy of Milan...
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Soncino Press is a Jewish publishing company based in the United Kingdom that has published a variety of books of Jewish interest, most notably English...
as a model by early Hebrew typographers such as Abraham Garton, the Soncinofamily and Daniel Bomberg in their editions of commented texts (such as the...
Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, based on the layout pioneered by the Soncinofamily printers, with the commentaries of Rashi, and of the Tosfot in the margins...
printing in Hebrew, was established in Cairo c. 1557 by a scion of the Soncinofamily of printers, Italian Jews of Ashkenazi origin who operated a press in...
The oldest confirmed printed Haggadah was printed in Soncino, Lombardy in 1486 by the Soncinofamily. Although the Jewish printing community was quick to...
on Sephardic semi-cursive) by early Hebrew typographers such as the Soncinofamily. The typeface later became associated with devotional women's literature...
death by several hundred years. Early Hebrew typographers such as the Soncinofamily and Daniel Bomberg employed in their editions of commented texts (such...
castle of Soncino, near the city of Cremona in Lombardy. In the following year his brother Alberico was put to death, and the Romano family became extinct...
owned many estates throughout the Italian Peninsula, including a Castle in Soncino, a Palace in Milan, and countless others in Muggiò, Melzo, Gorgonzola,...
de Gaul. This translation is believed to have been published by the Soncinofamily in Constantinople sometime between 1534 and 1546. A rare copy of the...
"Haphtaroth") - it was also the first Biblical publication of the famous Soncinofamily of Hebrew printers. There was, in fact, an early opinion that scrolls...
completed in 2004. The Soncino Talmud (34 volumes, 1935–1948, with an additional index volume published in 1952), Isidore Epstein, Soncino Press. An 18 volume...
Soncinos, indeed, printed books in other characters than Hebrew (see Soncinofamily), as did also Abraham d'Ortas. There does not appear to have been much...
(1983), Midrash Rabbah (10 volumes), Lehman, S.M. (translator), London: The Soncino Press. Mann, Thomas (1943), "Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me",...
1970 murders, in Rome, Italy, committed by Camillo II Casati Stampa di Soncino, Marquis of Casate, of his wife Anna Fallarino and her lover Massimo Minorenti...
Bacca. Self-taught as an artist, Manzoni first exhibited at the Soncino's Castle in Soncino in August 1956, at the age of 23. His early work was broadly...
compared with Bar Ilan. Produced by Davka corporation, Soncino Classics Collection includes Soncino English translations of the Tanach, Babylonian Talmud...
Rabbah: Genesis, Volume One, translated by Rabbi Dr. H. Freedman; London: Soncino Press, 1983; ISBN 0-900689-38-2; p. 180. Luttikhuizen 2003, pp. 36–39....
destroying a large portion of the palace. The Milanese ambassador, Raimondo Soncino, witnessed the blaze, and estimated the damage at 60,000 ducats, in modern...
divine commandments (the Sefer Ha-mitzvoth of Moses Maimonides) London: Soncino Press, 1940. Friedberg, Albert (2013). Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides...
University "Roman Currency of the Principate" A. Mischcon, Abodah Zara, p.10a Soncino, 1988. Mischcon cites various sources, "SJ Rappaport... is of opinion that...
Griffo. Griffo then went to work for Gershom Soncino, whose family were Hebrew printers. It was with Soncino that Griffo's second italic type was cut in...
century. Reprinted in, e.g., Midrash Rabbah: Genesis, Volume II, London: The Soncino Press, 1983. ISBN 0-900689-38-2. Guggenheimer, Heinrich W., Seder Olam:...
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