Obj. ID: 53921  Kame'a Yerushalmit, Jerusalem, circa 1910

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

The amulet in the center of the left-hand page is derived from the Zuckerman model of 1914 as well as the 67th Psalm Menorah on the right-hand side. But the amulet, originally large, is so small and almost impossible to read that it is printed there for symbolic value only.

It was printed in the workshop of one of the foremost printers in Jerusalem, Shmuel Halevi Zuckerman.

Shmuel ben Ya’akov Halevy Zuckerman was born in Mesiritch in 1856. As a six-year-old child, he made Aliyah with his parents. He learned the printing trade while working for Yisrael Bak, after whose death he continued in the printing house of Bak’s son Nisan. He soon went to London and worked in printing there before returning to Eretz Israel to work in the shop of Ag”n. By 1885 he was a partner in that enterprise and from 1886 became the sole owner, publishing books under his name, becoming one of the foremost printers in Jerusalem. The press operated in the Old City of Jerusalem until Zuckerman moved it to the new city in 1926. Up to 1890, almost 80 books were printed from his press in addition to many single sheets.

More than 100 items from the Zuckerman printing house exist in the Gross Family Collection.