The Meaning of the Name “Maccabee”
…have been considered closed by Jewry even before I Maccabees was composed. See Sid Z. Leiman, The Canonization of Hebrew Scripture (1976), pp. 29-30 and 131-32. Even if the canon…
Seforim sale
…Steinschneider, Jewish literature, Hard cover, 1965 Reprint $30 נג. Canonization of Hebrew Scripture, S. Leiman PB, Very rare $65 נד. Victor Keats, Chess, Magnes Press, $16 נה. R. SchatzUffenheimer, Hasidism…
A Little-Known Rabbi Doctor and his Exceedingly Rare Medical Diploma Leon Cantarini- AKA Yehuda HaKohen Katz Me-HaHazzanim (University of Padua, 1623)
…Shimon Steinmetz, “On non-Jews with rabbinic ordination, real and imagined: some notes on Dr. Leiman’s post on Tychsen,” On the Main Line Blog (September 20, 2011). [57] While the title…
The Physician-Ḥaver in Early Modern Italy: A Reunion of Long Forgotten “Friends”
…the non-Jew who received rabbinic ordination, was actually a Ḥaver degree. See Shimon Steinmetz, “On non-Jews with rabbinic ordination, real and imagined: some notes on Dr. Leiman’s post on Tychsen,”…
Review of Shaul Stampfer, Families, Rabbis & Education
…death. On page 326, note 6, regarding the Vilna Gaon’s attitude toward R. Jonathan Eibeschuetz, see Sid Z. Leiman, “When a Rabbi Is Accused of Heresy: The Stance of the…
Upcoming Kestenbaum Auction
…subject of an article by Dr. S.Z. Leiman (and this nice post as well). As we have previously discussed books given as wedding favors, lot 76, is such an item…
