The Jewish legacy of Johannes Gutenberg

Yonason Goldson
Lessons from History
5 min readOct 2, 2020

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How movable type transformed the secular and spiritual worlds

Photo by Mark Pellegrini via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg#/media/File:Gutenberg_Bible.jpg

Two decades ago, when Biography.com presented its list of the 100 most influential people of the last millennium, their choice for the Number 1 position was indisputable. By introducing the Western world to movable type, Johannes Gutenberg inaugurated the rapid expansion of knowledge that…

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Yonason Goldson
Lessons from History

Ethics ninja, keynote and TEDx speaker, recovered hitchhiker, podcast host, and community rabbi at yonasongoldson.com