Igrot Shmuel: Possible Second printing sign up
Update about Igrot Shmuel: Possible Second printing sign up By Eliezer Brodt Less than two weeks ago I announced the publication of R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi’s monumental collection of letters, Igrot…
The Satmar Rebbe and a Censored Mishnah Berurah, and R. Baruch Rabinovich of Munkács
…story that appears under the heading על זיוף המשנה ברורה. The Satmar Rebbe was away from home and asked his assistant, R. Joseph Ashkenazi (who is the source of the…
Translations of Rabbi Judah Halevi’s Kuzari
…of his desire not to appear as a competitor with Even Shmuel, he then goes on to attack Even Shmuel’s translation mercilessly. He even states that Rabbi Judah Halevi composed…
Jews in Wonderland
…culture. Doing so led to a highly romanticized depiction of Sephardic Jewry, one where they were seen as superior to Ashkenazim in nearly every way—a curious, if not troubling, Ashkenazic…
Post-Mosaic Additions to the Torah?
…בספר R. Ashkenazi recognizes that the words גט פטורין appear in Onkelos, but he thinks the other two words are original to R. Judah. (This shows that R. Ashkenazi did…
A Gemeinde Gemeinheit
…impasse, we reached out to Professor Shnayer Z. Leiman, who suggested that the scholar most likely to solve the mystery would be the doyen of Israeli bibliographers, Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi.[5]…
