New Auction Catalog
…library and YIVO has sold parts of the library as well); Koheles Moshe, the catalog of St. Petersberg library compiled by Shmuel Wiener considered one of the best bibliography catalogs…
R. Elazar Fleckeles’s Haggadah Maaseh BR’ Elazar
…According to Shmuel Werses, Haskalah and Sabbatianism, (Heb.), pp. 68 and Boaz Huss, KeZohar Harokeyah (p.323) this teshuvah has been censored out of the 1912 edition of TM. I have…
New book announcement: Professor David Henshke’s work on the Seder Night
…are people who specialize in collecting haggadahs although they do not regularly collect seforim. In almost every Jewish house today one can find many kinds of Haggadahs. In 1901 Shmuel…
Parshat Ki Tisa. The Anointing Oil Revisited.
…laws like writing a “get” (see Bet Shmuel at the end of the laws of writing names of men and women printed after siman 129 of Even Haezer; see also…
Keser vs. Kesher: What’s In A Name?
…classic Ashkenazis – which KI’s founders surely spoke – meaning Crown of Israel). I soon noticed that below the words ‘Kesher Israel Synagogue’ on the cornerstone of KI’s current building (pictured…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions – Part II
…the accuracy of text. This fact was not lost on the chief editor Shmuel Shraga Feiginsohn as he states in the famous Achris Davar at the end of Maseches Nidah….
