Book Announcement: Volume Five of Amudim beToldot haSefer haIvri
Book Announcement: Volume Five of Amudim beToldot haSefer haIvri By Eliezer Brodt I am very happy to announce the recent publication (and Sale) of an important work, which will be…
Review of Amudim be-Toldot Sefer ha-I…
Review of Amudim be-Toldot Sefer ha-Ivri Haghot u-Maghimby Eliezer Brodt and Dan Rabinowitz Yaakov S. Spiegel, Amudim be-Tolodot Sefer ha-Ivri Haghot u-Maghim (Chapters in the History of the Jewish Book…
The Legend of R. Yehuda Halevi’s Death: Truth or Fiction & the Cairo Genizah
…Judah Halevi’s Sefer Ha Kuzari, University of Pennsylvania, 2003). [4] For some more information on R’ Yehuda Halevi in relation to this topic: See; D. Kaufmann, Mechkarim Besafrus Haivrit Byemei…
New Book Announcement: Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri (Volume Three)
New Book Announcement: Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri (Volume Three) By Eliezer Brodt I am very happy to announce the recent publication of an important work, which will be of great…
Mrs. Ethel Abrams – Ettel Ha’Ivriya of Clarksdale, Mississippi
Mrs. Ethel Abrams – Ettel Ha’Ivriya of Clarksdale, Mississippi By Rabbi Akiva Males ________________________ Introduction[1] Stepping out of my car on Monday morning, July 3rd 2023, I received a warm…
The Pitfalls of Disagreeing with the Gra
…b’Tolodot Sefer HaIvri. Both volumes are tremendously rich in material and appear to have gone virtually unnoticed. (Unfortunately, Spiegel soon after the publication of the first volume came out with…
Shavuah HaSefer: A Recommended Reading List III
…times right before some times right after), there is a period of about ten days called Shavuah Hasefer-book week. Shavuah HaSefer is a sale which takes place all across the…
Shavuah HaSefer: A Recommended Reading List
Shavuah HaSefer: A Recommended Reading List by Eliezer Brodt Every year in Israel, around Shavous time, there is a period of around ten days called Shavuah Hasefer-book week. Shavuah HaSefer…
Shavua HaSefer sale on Hardrives
Annual Shavua HaSefer sale on computerized (digital) Seforim Libraries. 1) Otzar HaChochma This year the sale will be 30% off the regular price. The sale will be from June 7…
Anonymous Sefarim
…Hida nor anyone else, ever mention any prohibition in revealing the name of an anonymous work. Sources: Yakov Shmuel Speigel, Amudim b’Toldot HaSefer HaIvri – Kitiva V’Hatakato, Ramat-Gan 2005, pp….
‘Yikar Sahaduta Dipum Bidatta’ R. Tzvi Hirsch Levin, the Besamim Rosh and the Chida
…Sefarim and Winograd’s Otzar HaSefer Ha’Ivri, contain an entry for a separate pamphlet published by R. Zvi Hirsch Levin written in defense of the Besamim Rosh entitled Yikar Sahaduta. This…
Some New Seforim, Books, R’ Eleazar Fleckeles, R’ Naftali Herz Weisel, Frankism and (of course) Censorship, Pt. I
…occurrence in such works). [12] For recent discussion on this see Yaakov Spiegel, Amudim BeToldos HaSefer HaIvri: BiSharei Hadefus, pp. 164-199. [13] See Leo Landman, The Cantor: An Historic Perspective. [14] Parts of this dersaha…
Chapter from Y. S. Spiegel’s Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri (Volume Three)
Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel’s new book has just appeared, as announced here. It is titled Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: Be-Sha’arei ha-Defus. The Seforim Blog is happy to present this selection from…
Where’s Shai Agnon Revisited
…Agnon. As mentioned previously, we hope to provide comprehensive reviews of Y.S. Spiegel’s Tolodot Sefer HaIvri, in that vein, we came across the following footnote (vol. 1, p. 29 n.8)…
New Book Announcement: Some New Works by Professor Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel
…books on this topic in a series called Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri. Volume one was first printed in 1996 and is called Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: Haghot u-Maghim. It was…