Some Assorted Comments and a Selection from my Memoir, part 2
Some Assorted Comments and a Selection from my Memoir, part 2 by Marc B. Shapiro 1. In a recent Jewish Action (Summer 2009), p. 21, Elli Fischer writes: Brandeis University…
Interview with Professor Lawrence Kaplan
…who seems to be the key figure for the exponents of Daas Torah is the Sefer HaChinuch — he’s the one who applies the Sifre generally to Chachmei HaDor. But…
April Fools! Tracing the History of Dreidel Among Neo-Traditionalists and Neo-Hebraists
…“the Classic” and “common” reason, and many others. Not all were so taken with Hirshovitz’s work. R Shmuel Kraus published a highly critical article in Kiryat Sefer in 1933 that…
Kadesheinu beMitsvotekha – The Function of the Mitsva
…good or bad. It all depends on how it is used. A hand that writes a sefer Torah is sanctified; while one that murders is defiled. The same is true…
Lectures on Hagadah Shel Pesach and about Hagaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky ZTZ”L’s Seforim
…of Hagaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky Ztz’l. In the first episode, I discuss Kiryat Melech, R’ Chaim’s sefer on the Rambam. The second one is about his work on the Marsha,…
Legacy Judaica Auction March 6th: A Sampling of Forgeries and other Eclectic Lots
…including his commentary on the Tosefta (lot 48). Although not controversial, another attempt to link the present with the past is a curious book, Sefer ha-Brit ha-Hadash, written by Uziel Haga of…
Some Notes on Censorship of Hebrew Books
…burn the Sefer ha-emunot of their great-grandfather, because of his criticism of Maimonides, but they became afraid because of an order of the king not to burn any Jewish books,…
New Auction House – Genazym
…1697,” Alei Sefer 21 (2010) 99-111. [4] David Hanegbi, “The Printed Hebrew Book as a Talisman and Ritual Object: A Historical and Bibliographical Study in Sefer Razi’el ha-Malakh and its Editions,” (Ramat…
The Vilna Gaon, Part 1: How Modern Was He?
…associated with it. When I looked in Stern’s note (p. 246 n. 55) it didn’t help. This is what appears in the note: See Moshe Philip, ed., Sefer Mishlei im Biur…
Who Wrote the Mekore Minhagim?
…is in order. As I noted in my original post, the first edition of the sefer to come out was published in Berlin in 1846 with the author listed as…
The Rogochover and More
…there is a sheva under the ayin. See Yehoshua Blau, “Al ha-Mivneh ha-Murkav shel ha-Ivrit ha-Hadashah le-Umat ha-Ivrit she-ba-Mikra,”Leshonenu 54 (2000), pp. 105-106. [25] See Fixler, “Perush ha-Rambam le-Milim ha-Yevaniyot she-ba-Mishnah,” Asif 2: Tanakh u-Mahashavah (2015), pp….
Rav Ovadia Yosef, ZT”L
…who he came to be and that was how he spread the Torah. Page after page, sefer after sefer. A shiur in this neighborhood and ashiur in that country. The establishment of Jewish schools in different countries…
Legacy Judaica: Astrological Title Pages, R. Hutner, and Other Items of Note
…edition of the Talmud (lot 10), and some other items of interest. Sefer Evronot, Offenbach, 1722, (lot no. 63) is an unusual Hebrew book because it includes paper cut-outs that…
The Anatomy of an Auction: A Previously Undissected Body of Literature on the History of the Jews and Postmortem Dissection
…the Braginsky Collection. On this diploma see, Giancarlo Lacerenza and Vera Schwarz-Ricci, “Il Diploma di Dottorato in Medicina di Avraham ben Me’ir de Balmes (Naploli 1492),” Sefer Yuhasin 2(2014), 163-193….
Plagiarism, Halakhic Paradox, and the Malbim on Kohelet
…Ashkenazi, “Ha-Gonev min ha-Sefer,” Yeshurun 25 (2011), pp. 675-690. [3] See here. [4] See e.g., Bekhorot 31b, Menahot 93b; R. Moses Zweig, Ohel Moshe, vol. 1, no. 41. The fact that the Sages had…