Chanukah Customs and sources
…Butler has a post here on some sources, however, one should add that there is now a full length sefer devoted to this topic, Yisrael Barukh Mestinger, Nitel U’Meorosav, 2000….
Review: Daniel Sperber, On Changes in Jewish Liturgy
…typo it should read Shmuel Askenazi. p. 36 see also D. Rabinowitz, “Rayna Batya and other Learned Women: A Reevaluation of Rabbi Barukh Halevi Epstein’s Sources,” Tradition 35 (2001). p….
Prof. Elliott Horowitz — Edmund Wilson, Hebrew, Christmas, and the Talmud
…be seen that before the oddly vocalized words “elmod lashon yisrael,” Wilson added, in the same square script, the blessing “barukh ata la-shem” – probably the first time these words…
Bibliography of Articles and Books on Nitel
…bibliography of the various editions of Iggeret R. Yochonon ben Zackai. Yisrael Barukh Messinger, Nitel uMerosroso, Union City, NJ, 251, [4] pages, 1999. This work is similar to the above…
Racy Title Pages
…example is a Mahzor published in Venice in 1710. This edition includes a depiction of semi-nude women right before the start of Barukh She’amar. From an artistic perspective this arguably…
Review of Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot He-Hadash
…entry lists many of those who record the story albeit with slightly different facts (they analyze the following sources: Beis Rebbi, Mekor Barukh, MiDor Dor, Medi Hodesh b’Hodsho, Imrei Shammai,…
