The 1526 Prague Haggadah and its Illustrations
…referred to as the colophon. On the printers see Chaim Friedberg, Toldos Hadefus Haivri, pp. 1-10. On various aspects about printing in these years in Prague, see Hebrew Printing in…
An Obscure Diagram in the Bomberg Shas
…For more background on this, please see Marvin J. Heller, Printing the Talmud (A History of the Early Printed Editions of the Talmud )Im Hasefer, Brooklyn, NY 1992, pages 167-180…
The Modern Custom of Standing for the Ten Commandments
…presumably will he be the last, to question the authenticity of a particular responsum of the Rambam. For other examples, see Y.S. Speigel, Amudim be-Tolodot Sefer ha-Ivri, Kiteva ve-Hatakah, 264-65….
An “Artscroll”™ Illustration in the Vilna Shas-Masechet Shabbat 98b
…Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: Hagahot u-Magihim (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan Univeristy Press, 2005), 312-17. [3] Marvin J. Heller, Printing the Talmud: Complete Editions, Tractates, and Other Works and the Associated…
Was Professor Saul Lieberman “Orthodox” or “Conservative”? [1]
…at JTS should be sh’lomei emunei yisrael and that the students and graduates should beshomrei torah u-mitzvot ka-rauy v’khayaut.” Lieberman did not care about labels but rather about substance, and in this…
Shnayer Leiman – The New Encyclopaedia Judaica: Some Preliminary Observations
…in the Middle Ages (Hebrew); Wine of Non-Jews (Hebrew); Responsa as Historical Sources (Hebrew). Some of his shorter essays (e.g.“Three Themes in Sefer Hasidim”; “Rupture and Reconstruction”) have stimulated more…
