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“Jozefow Press 1867Stam: Яковъ Моисеевичъ КЛЕЙМАНЪ г. Сороки Бесс. губ.Yakov Moiseevich Kleiman, City of Soroki, Bessarabia Governorate)”
• The Inclusion of Asefat Amarim: To make their edition highly competitive and valuable to scholars across Europe, the Józefów printers combined the classic text of the Midrash with two vital layers of commentary wrapped side-by-side:
1. Matnot Kehuna (מתנות כהונה) – The foundational 16th-century commentary.
2. Asefat Amarim (אספת אמרים) – Compiled by Rabbi Tzvi Ze’ev Rubinstein. This commentary served as an essential anthology, gathering hidden interpretations, cross-references, and explanations from across generations of Talmudic and Rabbinic scholars.
• Around 1820, a Jewish businessman named Szaja Waks (Wax), who leased the local Hamernia paper mill from the Zamoyski estate, brought expert typographers from the famous Slavuta press in Volhynia to Józefów. He established a highly efficient Hebrew printing house.
• Global Export: At its height, the press was the town’s economic lifeblood. Nearly half of Józefów’s residents made their living by printing, binding, and selling Hebrew literature. Books printed here—ranging from Torah volumes to intricate rabbinical commentaries—were exported across Europe and as far as Turkey.