New work by Rabbi Stahl
…שיר השירים איוב ורות ספר קושית לאחד מהראשונים Copies of אלפא ביתא תניתא דשמואל זעירא ב’ חלקים by R. Shmuel Ashkenazi and edited by Rabbi Stahl are also still available…
The Mother Haggados: Models for Modern Analysis of Printed Jewish Illustrations
…origin: Sephardic or Ashkenazic countries. The former includes the creation cycle and the Exodus story prior to the Haggadah text, while the latter incorporates the imagery into the text. Within…
Leket Yosher – A Closer Appraisal in Light of a Recent Controversy
…is mentioned in R. M. Ashkenazi, Hilkhot Talmud Torah, however, even so it is not well-known by any definition.] Since we are on the topic of the Leket Yosher it…
“Rabbi David Hoffmann, ZL” by Eliezer M. Lipschuetz – A Translation
…Jewish community as single entity which should not easily be split. In 1875 [sic], Rabbi Hoffmann composed a dissertation, A Biography of Mar Shmuel,[6] and received a doctorate from the…
A Picture and its One Thousand Words: The Old Jewish Cemetery of Vilna Revisited*
…cemetery, also (in Yiddish) as der alter feld or der alter beys eylam [so in Lithuanian Yiddish; in Ashkenazic Yiddish: beys oylom]. It was in use from the year it…
Book Week: 2025
…Littman Library Yosef Levine, Hakham Tzvi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate Marc Shapiro, Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New, The Unique Vision of Rav Kook הרצוג…
