David Sassoon, Bibliophile Par Excellence
…A very important acquisition David Sassoon made in Sept. 1923 was the Diwan of Shmuel HaNagid which Oxford University Press published with an introduction by Sasson in 1924. The manuscript…
Legacy Judaica Auction, Cremation, R. Kook, and Other Items
…Shmuel Eidels, Maharsha, and other of R. Yitzkah Alfasi, Rif, which is at lot 54. Rif is depicted wearing robes and a turban with a long white beard. Of course,…
Some Assorted Comments and a Selection from my Memoir, part 2
…a predecessor to R. Akiva Eger as rav of Posen, the Beit Shmuel Aharon, R. Samuel ben Moses Falkenfeld,[16] had a most significant great-grandson, yet he was not Jewish. I…
Romm Press, Haggadah Art, Controversial Books, and other Bibliographical Historica
…95 is Elbona shel Torah, (Berlin, 1929), by R. Shmuel Shraga Feigneshon, known as Safan ha-Sofer. He helmed the operations of the Romm Press in Vilna. During his 55-year tenure,…
Eliezer Brodt: A Censored Work by a Student of R. Hayyim of Volozhin: The Case of Menuchah u-Kedushah
…(as we will see) it seems that he must have been an excellent one. In the recent reprint, R. Shmuel Auerbach writes that the sefer was famous in particular as…
To Censor or Not to Censor, that is the Question
…R. Shmuel Salant and in 1894 emigrated to the United States. He held a handful of rabbinic positions, eventually, in 1906 becoming the chief rabbi of St. Louis. Abramowitz sought…
