Legacy Judaica Spring 2021 Auction
…to the Netziv even though he is sick. Shockingly enough R’ Chaim Kanievskey advised R’ Horowitz, the editor of this edition, not to edit out this line. Item #224 must…
Tobacco and the Hasidim and a Comment on Artscroll
…power, and can do harm, to the majority of men, since it dries up the [bodily] fluid. [11] Similarly, another reliable source records that Jacob Isaac Horowitz, the Seer of…
The Origins of Hamentashen from the Evidence of Jewish Literature: A Historical-Culinary Survey Revisited (yet again)
…על כל זה אצל E. Horowitz, Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence 2006, pp. 9. 218-219, 228 ). אנו רואים אפוא שמנהג אכילת ‘אזני-המן’ בפורים רווח ברבות…
The Vilna Gaon, part 3 (Review of Eliyahu Stern, The Genius) by Marc B. Shapiro
…if no evil had befallen him, asserting that his son had caused his own death.” See Elliot Horowitz, Reckless Rites (Princeton, 2006), p. 154. [2] See Divrei Eliyahu (Israel, n.d.),…
The Vilna Gaon, Part 1: How Modern Was He?
The Vilna Gaon, Part 1 How Modern Was He? by Marc B. Shapiro Eliyahu Stern, The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism (New Haven, 2013) Eliyahu Stern has set…
Upcoming Auctions
…as well. The Siddur Sha’ar ha-Shamayim from R. Isaiah Horowitz, the Shelah (lot no. 174) and R. Y. Emden’s Siddur, (lot no. 101). Another important first edition of a liturgical…
