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With the rise of the printing press, translations of the Bible became more common and increasingly important. This volume presents the Old Testament in Yiddish, a language that combines German, Hebrew, and other languages. This book was printed in 1687 in Amsterdam, and is the second edition of the translation by Yosef ben Alexander Witzenhausen. The images below show part of the text of the book of Numbers (Bemidbar, ‘in the wilderness’), as well as an inscription noting the content of the book as a Yiddish Bible.

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2. Yiddish Bible ,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed December 6, 2025,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/523