Rashi script

The Rashi script ( Hebrew כתב רש"י k'tav rashi ), rarely rabbinic writing, is a based on the Sephardic Hebrew half italic variant of the Hebrew Scriptures, which for the reproduction of rabbinical commentaries on texts of the Hebrew Bible and mainly the This type of writing, Maschket or Maschaitschrift is used Talmud. called, was originally used mainly for book manuscripts and preserved after the invention of printing. was used in letterpress printing for the first time, as far as known, in the ben Abraham Garton 1475 printed in Reggio di Calabria issue of Torahkommentars of the french Jewish scholar Rashi ( 1040-1105 ). become since Bible or Talmud and rabbinic text comment in the pressure displayed on a page, such as in the Soncino Talmud Bomberg and spending, is the font of the distinction between primary text for which designated as Assyrian Hebrew square script is used and rabbinic commentary and was called the " Rashi script ". Rashi himself wrote not in a Sephardic, but in a zarfatischen, northern French writing. Some of the opinion is expressed that the Rashi font is difficult to read.

In Rashi font traditionally the texts in Ladino sometimes Yiddish texts for which, however, usually an Ashkenazi Maschketschrift, " Waibertaitsch " were printed, called, was used. Today, both are usually printed in square script.