Can Orthodoxy Decide Its Own History?
…al ha-sefer “Gidulo shel Gadol” Hamayan 50:7 (Tishrei 5770), pp. 77-104. [3] See Immanuel Etkes, “On Shaping the Image of ‘the Gedolim’ in Ultra-Orthodox Lithuanian Hagiographic Literature,” in Benjamin Brown…
The Physicians of the Rome Plague of 1656, Yaakov Zahalon and Hananiah Modigliano
…multi-section work entitled Ohalei Yaakov Otzar HaHokhmot. Zahalon’s medical work is labelled as section two, Hokhmat HaRefuah, the only section in the Vatican manuscript. Below is the section describing the…
Jewish Treasures From Oxford Libraries
…window labelled ‘Jewish Heritage’ in the middle of the homepage of Oxford Chabad www.oxfordchabad.org opens up a surprisingly academic and scholarly range of material on Jewish Oxford. Both recommended! [2]…
The Greatest Story in the Annals of Jewish Book Collecting
…Jews to England under Cromwell. Lunzer noted that one of the books on display, from the collection of Westminster Abbey, was improperly labeled, and was in fact a volume of a Bomberg Talmud….
Another “Translation” by Artscroll, the Rogochover and the Radichkover
…translation of Sefer ha-Hinukh, no. 467. In discussing the prohibition to gash one’s body as idol-worshippers so, Sefer ha-Hinukh states: אבל שנשחית גופנו ונקלקל עצמנו כשוטים, לא טוב לנו ולא דרך חכמים ואנשי…
Tracing the History of Shavuos Night Learning
…Shavuos. One of the earliest printed sources for this custom is a work entitled Sefer Ha-Mussar, authored by Rav Yehudah Kalatz and first printed in 1537, which states that there…
