Marvin J. Heller is an award-winning author of books and articles on early Hebrew printing and bibliography. Among his books are the Printing the Talmud series, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book(s): An Abridged Thesaurus, and collections of articles.

• PrefaceList of FiguresSection IntroductionsPart 1 Hebrew Book Arts1 Rare and Unusual Motifs on Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Book Title-Pages2 The Deer Motif on Early Hebrew Book Title-Pages3 Zafenat Pane’ah: A Further Example in the Titling of Hebrew Books4 Heshek Shelomo: Varied Heartfelt Books so EntitledPart 2 Makers of Hebrew Books5 The Porto Family: Eminent Sages, Scholars, and Prolific Seventeenth-Century Authors6 Abraham Menahem ben Jacob ha-Kohen Rapa mi-Porto (Rapaport) Ashkenazi: A Renaissance Rabbi of Interest7 Jacob ben Samuel Bunim Koppelman: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Jewish Scholar8 The Albelda Family: Moses and Moses Jacob Albelda—Prominent, Eminent Scholars9 Moses ben Baruch Almosnino: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Sephardic Sage in Salonika10 Judah Leib Pukhovitser: The Life and Ethical Works of a Kabbalist11 Jacob Judah (Aryeh) de Leão Templo: A Converso Scholar, a Jewish Hakham12 Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn: A Multi-Faceted Erudite Scholar13 Solomon de Oliveyra: A Seventeenth-Century Sephardic SagePart 3 Places of Hebrew Books14 Guadalajara: A Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Press of Distinction15 Early Hebrew Printing in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe16 A Fleeting Moment, A Short-Lived Press: Hebrew Printing in Sixteenth-Century Fez17 Hebrew Printing in Turka: Home to a Barely Remembered Hebrew Press18 Tarnopol: A Short-Lived Early-Nineteenth-Century Hebrew Press19 Hebrew Printing in Lissa (Leszno): A Brief (Perchance) Transitory Moment20 Halberstadt: A Small but Significant Hebrew Press in a Saxon CommunityPart 4 Book Varia21 For a Remembrance: Books so Entitled as a Remembrance for the Author22 Sefer ha-Tappu’ah (Book of the Apple): Aristotle Expresses an Interest in Jewish Concepts23 An Enigmatic Pseudo-Shklov Edition of Barukh Sheʾamar24 Tzevi Hirsch of Nadworna’s Sefer Alpha Beta25 Yalkut Reʾuveni: Abraham Reuben ben Hoeshke’s Popular Kabbalistic Midrashic Collection26 R. Nathan Nata ben Reuben David Tebele Spira and His WorksMaʾamar Yayin ha-Meshummar, on the Prohibition against Drinking Stam Yeinam (Gentile Wine), and Contemporary Books on This SubjectBibliographyIndex