Book Announcement: The Lost Library by Dan Rabinowitz
…Gaon R’ Yakov Chaim Sofer always quotes him with great respect. He then showed me a sefer of Mattiyahu printed by Mossad Harav Kook (Mivchar Kesavim). The sefer was out…
Plagiarism, Citation, and Redemption
…be scientific objections to the Copernican model. The bold text shows where the text is identical to Sefer Haberit, first published in 1798. Quite simply put, Landau stole from Sefer Haberit….
“Ha’Rotzeh Lichanek, Hitaleh B’Ilan Gadol”: Notes on some Literary forgeries of Jewish works in the the Late Modern Period (1756-1965)
…13 Zekher Tzaddikim Mordecai Sultansky 1841 14 Sefer Avnei Zikaron Abraham Firkovich 1845-1872 15 The Roads of Jerusalem Eliakim Carmoly 1847 16 Sefer Ha’Eshkol R’ Zvi Binyamin Auerbach 1863 17…
A Short Note Regarding an Illustrated Title Page and A Possible Unicum
…British Library, 1994), 599; Joseph Zedner, Catloglouge of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum (London, 1867), 510 recording Mantua 1759; Yeshayahu Vinograd, Otsar ha-Sefer ha-Ivri (Jerusalem:…
Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz
…are also a number of seforim that are composed of riddles to sharpen the student’s mind. In 1545 R’ Yakov Landau published one in the back of his Sefer HaAgur…
The Root of the Word מבול: A Flood of Possibilities
…This would give more of a basis to interpret מבול as deriving from נבל. [9] In addition to his comm. to Gen. 6:17, see his Sefer ha-Shoreshim, entry נבל. [10]…
