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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

16—Friday, June 2, 1967

Story of Lithography Told in Volume
Describing Development of Printing

Educational volumes for young
readers, suitable as well for their
elders. are gaining momentum and
assure popularity for creative and

constructive literary efforts.
S. Carl Hirsch. who has au-

thored a number of scientific
hooks, presents in delightful fash-
ion "the story of lithography"
under the title "Printing From a
Stone. - Published by Viking Press,
well illustrated with a series of
pict ures that reproduce famous
paintings depicting the printing
history, the Hirsch story takes the
reader hack to earliest times to
describe the story of stones

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carved to express loftiest ideals."

Ile explains how inscriptions
were chiseled in early times to
convey knowledge, how the Chi-
nese experimented with printing
directly from wooden blocks on
which writing was carved in re-

verse and he leads up to the story
of Johann Gutenberg's invention

which resulted in the printing of
the first Bihle in the Gutenberg
movable type in 1455.
From this point, Hirsch de-

By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.)

How deep must a grave be ac-
cording to the Jewish tradition?

stacles. He relates this about the
In the original sources, there
inventions of Aloys Senefelder,
his hand-operated presses devel- seems to be no clear-cut definite
oped in the early 1800s and 11.- measurement of how deep in the
troduces the many other skilled earth a corpse should he buried.
developments in the advance- According to one of the contempo-
ment of printing.
rary authorities, the coffin should
The "offset - process, the print- be at least three handbreadths be-
ing of books, the various new low the surface of the ground
methods are part of this story
which encourages acquisition of
knowledge. The Hirsch story cer-
tainly enlightens the reader and '
portrays the developments of civil-
ization's most vital instrument. 1

(roughly 30 centimeters). (Rabbi
Moshe Feinstein, Iggereth, Moshe,
Yoreh De'ah 333:484). The basis
for his decision is the requirement
in the Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh
De'ah 362) that, in a case where
one coffin is buried in the same
t should
hso f
b
eoaps t o another, there
pl
be ot at l east of six handbreadths
depth between them (i.e. so that
each coffin should have at least
three handbreadths of earth around
it.) Some authorities require that
the depth of the coffin in the earth
should be the height of an average
man (they estimate this at about

L70 meters). The reason cited for
this that it would be in a completely
segregated area of earth. A prac-
tical reason for this measure would
possibly be that, even if the coffin
should somehow move into a per-
pendicular position, standing up-
right on its base, it still would be
beneath the surface of the earth.
The author of a well-known work
on the customs of burial and death
(Nisan Aaron Tukzinski, Gesher
ha-Chayyim) reports that in Israel
the deceased are buried 1.30-1.40
meters beneath the surface of

earth.

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