Editor's Note

Rather, through painstaking research and close analysis they reveal the valiant efforts of generations of bibliographers - our "ancestors" - to erect a stable and usable structure for the documentation and study of the Hebrew and Jewish book. [...] in "Johann Heinrich Hottinger and the Systematic Organization of Jewish Literature" Seth Jerchower and Heidi G. Lerner document the pioneering attempt by a seventeenth- century Swiss - and Christian - scholar to impose order on the seeming chaos of Judaica and Hebraica.