Obj. ID: 38786  Sereifah by Mordechai ben David Strellisker, Żółkiew, 1835

This text was prepared by William Gross:

A poem written on the fire in the synagogue at Brody with the intent that the proceeds will go to help the victims.
At the close of the 17th century Zolkiew's first Hebrew printing house was established by the well known printer from Amsterdam, Uri Feibush Halevi. From this time, Zolkiew became one of the three centers of Hebrew typography in Poland (Lviv, Kracow and Zolkiew). In the 18th century, Uri Feibush’s heirs split the printing plant between them, so that thereafter the city had two Hebrew language printing shops with eight printing presses. Publications emanating from the Zolkiew printing houses gained a reputation throughout Poland and abroad, and the city became a world center for the printing of kabbalistic books.
At the end of the 18th century Zolkiew’s Hebrew print shops were transferred to Lviv by order of the Austrian government. In 1791, however, Abraham Judah Leob Meyerhoffer set up a printing shop there, which he ran until his death in 1811, whereupon it was taken over by his son Meyer Zeev. In the 1830's-1850's books from the Meyerhoffer press in Zolkiew were issued by Saul Dov Meyerhoffer.