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Estellina Conat

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Estellina Conat (fl. 1474–1477) was an Italian-Jewish printer. She was the first woman active as a printer.Estellina Conat lived in Mantua, Italy, during the second half of the 15th century. She was married to the Jewish physician Abraham Conat of Mantua and Ferrara, who founded the first Jewish printing press in 1475.Estellina played an active and significant role in the printing house. She is explicitly credited in the colophon of the book Beḥinat Olam (a philosophical poem by Jedaiah Bedersi)

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