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In 1679, two Jewish printing houses in Amsterdam, one owned by Josef Athias and the other by Uri Fajbusz, published huge print runs (some 6,000 copies each) of a Bible translated into Yiddish, to be distributed chiefly on the Polish market. Both printers secured various privileges for their publications, guaranteeing them exclusive rights. Uri Fajbusz had a privilege granted to him by the Polish King...
The instances of reconversion to Judaism are particularly difficult to study. We either know the biographies of Jewish converts from the Jewish and Christian periods of their lives but once they return to the Jewish religion, any trace of them is lost, or it is the other way round: we are dealing with Jewish reconverts, about whose previous Jewish or Christian ‘incarnations' we hardly know anything...
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