The treatise by Rafael Frank presented herewith appeared in 1911 in the journal Archiv für Buchgewerbe [Archive for the Book Trade], Year 48, volume 11 and caused a justifiable sensation in the graphic world among those engaged with Hebrew studies and type production. The volume in question was soon out of print and since a reprint was out of the question, we decided to make a new edition of the treatise, and, with it, to also offer a tangible sign of gratitude to the author, the creator of Frank Ruhl Hebrew, who in the interim has been cut down in the prime of life.
As a welcome addition to the treatise, Rafael Frank’s widow has contributed a short biography of her late husband, while Dr. Jacques Adler of Leipzig has undertaken to expand, in an afterword, on the renaissance of the Hebrew language and the modern Hebrew movement in general. Readers will appreciate these additions which help provide a fuller context for the work.
We thank the Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein (Society of the German Book Trade), the publisher of the Archiv für Buchgewerbe for permitting the use of Frank’s work and for placing the illustrations at our disposal.
—H. Berthold Foundry