I have a sefer

Back in print, even without a file.

A sefer that went out of print years ago. The typesetter is gone, the file is lost, and all that is left is a printed copy on a shelf, or a manuscript in the author's own hand. We bring it back as a new edition.

Tell us about the sefer

Whatever survives

We start from what you have.

A printed copy

Scanned page by page and read back into text, then proofread against the scan itself, line by line, so the new edition says what the old one said.

A handwritten manuscript

A ksav yad photographed and read into text, with every uncertain word marked for a human reader rather than guessed.

An old file

A Word file, an old PDF, or the publisher's files from a previous edition, brought up to a new typesetting.

The new edition

Faithful to the old, set as new.

  1. The text, recovered

    From the printed page, the scan or the ksav yad, checked against the original until the text is the author's, word for word.

  2. Corrections, if you want them

    Errors of the old edition, additions the author left in the margins, a new hakdamah: marked separately, so the new edition says clearly what changed.

  3. Set as a sefer

    A fresh typesetting in Hebrew or English, with the apparatus and the haskamos of the original reproduced. What production includes.

  4. The cover

    A new cover, or the old one rebuilt from a photograph of the book itself, so a series keeps its face.

  5. Back on sale

    An ISBN, print files, and a listing at Yampolsky's, printed on demand so the sefer never goes out of print again.

Classical texts

A classical text with its commentaries, set afresh.

The same work can be done for a classical sefer: the main text in the centre of the page and its commentaries around it, each in its traditional place, in clear square letters, with a check that no word of the source was lost in the setting. We prepare such editions for a yeshiva, a chaburah or a course, in the range of simanim or perakim that is being learned.

A sefer that should be in print?

Send us a photograph of the title page and tell us what survives. We will reply with a scope.

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