[INDOLOGY] Nirnaya Sagar Press and hebrew

[Harry Spier]

Dear list members,

First thank you to Madhav,Deshpande, Birgit Kellner, Phillip Maas and
Andrew Ollett for the indian printer and devanagari references.  Madhav has
confirmed off-list that देवनागरी मुद्राक्षरलेखनकला is a Marathi version by
Naik of his "Typography of Devanagari".

In the reference Madhav gave for the history of Nirnaya Sagar Press
https://archive.org/details/NirnayaSagarACenturyOfTypeCastingPrintingAndPublishingVinayakYKulkarni

it says about the founder Jawaji Dadaji that he cast 7 varieties of types
for Vedic Sanskrit, 20 of Devanagari, 15 of Gurajarati,* two of Hebrew *and
one of Kannada. It also includes this printed page of hebrew  (presumably
from Nirnaya Sagar Press) copied below.  From the little hebrew I remember
from over half a century ago, it appears to some kind of sample page with
each line repeated. With the first occurance without vowel markers (the
usual way of writing hebrew) immediately followed by the same line with
vowel markers (how you write hebrew for beginners).  The larger type is a
line from one of the psalms followed by Genesis 1:3  with I think a
spelling error.

Does anyone know the story of this hebrew type cast by Nirnaya Sagar Press?
Did Nirnaya Sagar Press print a book or books for a Jewish community in
India?

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Thanks,
Harry Spier
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