The Oriental Printing Press (Orientalische Buchdruckerey) was founded in 1784 in Berlin with the goal of publishing the works of writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and thereby promoting the spread of the movement’s ideas (Haskalah). Publishing more than 150 titles before the turn of the century in Hebrew and in German (with Hebrew characters), the printing house became one of the most important intellectual-journalistic institutions of the Haskalah. Its success was due in no …