Interview with Professor Lawrence Kaplan
Interview with Professor Lawrence Kaplan Conducted by Baruch Pelta on December 22, 2008 at the 40th Association for Jewish Studies Conference Transcribed Using the Services of Olivia Wiznitzer Co-edited by…
Some Recollections of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, Love Before Marriage, and More
…how we kiss the Torah just like a groom kisses his bride. The other source I found that cites R. Fried’s passage is R. Barukh Moskovits, Tenuvot Barukh (Jerusalem, 1969), vol. 2,…
A Half Slave, Ber Oppenheimer, the Reliability of R’ Shlomo Sofer, and Other Comments
…B’nuschei Hatefilah V’habrachos from the Vilna Gaon, printed in the back of the Shulchan Aruch, where he says that one should say וכל הרשעה and not עושי רשעה, as he references the gemara in Brachos. [38] Yosef Naphtali Stern…
Augsburg and its Printers
…feeds to this writing. Although it was at this time of a smaller scale (because of the not-yet published Bet Yosef and Shulchan Arukh and the later writings on the…
Eliezer Brodt – The Origins of Hamentashen in Jewish Literature
…Judith Cohen Montefiore we find a recipe for “Haman fritters.”[3] R. Barukh ha-Levi Epstein, in his Mekor Barukh, relates the following interesting anecdote which highlights the importance his grandfather placed…
The Origins of Hamentashen in Jewish Literature (Revisited)
…we find a recipe for “Haman fritters.”[7] R. Barukh ha-Levi Epstein, in his Mekor Barukh, relates the following interesting anecdote which highlights the importance his grandfather placed on eating hamentashen:…
