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(HEBRAICA) - An Important Collection of c. 200 Printed Hebrew Books from 200 towns and cities around the world, each of which is > of that locale. From the collection of the late Yosef Goldman. Detailed listing available upon request. 18th-20th century >===This remarkable collection represents books from 36 different countries from across the globe: From China to Kenya, from Uzbekistan to Yemen.===At its heart, the collection includes 100 first Hebrew printings from 100 locations from the heartland of Jewish population centers of pre-Holocaust Europe, that is towns and villages in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russian and Ukraine.===The collection includes a number of rare, or previously unknown titles, including several not listed in the two major bibliographies of early Hebrew printing, and some that demonstrate the existence of a history of Jewish printing in towns not generally known to have had such a history.===See A. Freimann, A Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing (1946)and Moshe Rosenfeld, Hebrew Printing from its Beginning until 1948 (1992).===Goldman List of Countries.===Algeria - 1.===Australia -1.===Austria - 1.===Bulgaria - 2.===Canada - 1.===China - 1.===Czech Rep. 2.===Egypt - 1.===England - 2F.===France - 5.===Germany 42.===Greece - 1.===Holland - 2.===Hungary - 33.===India - 2.===Ireland - 1.===Israel - 2.===Italy - 4.===Kenya - 1.===Latvia - 2.===Lithuania - 6.===Morocco - 2.===Norway - 1.===Poland - 37.===Portugal - 1.===Romania - 8.===Russia - 9.===Slovenia - 1.===South Africa - 1.===Switzerland - 1.===Syria - 1.===Ukraine - 11.===USA - 5.===Uzbekistan - 2 .===Wales - 1.===Yemen - 1.