Book Announcement-Sale: Iggrot Shmuel, by Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi
…is not a light read but contains so much valuable information on a wide range of topics. Just to quote one testimony regarding R. Ashkenazi’s letter, from Professor Shnayer Leiman,…
Comments on This and That, part 1
…canon that means it must be regarded as having been divinely inspired. I have found such a conception in many books.[24] Yet it is incorrect, and as Shnayer Leiman has…
The Illusory Portrait of R. Yom Tov Lipmann Heller: Deceptive Art and Jewish Images in Vienna
…lies beneath the surface, no rabbi is lurking behind the layers of paint. * I want to thank Dr. Shnayer Leiman for bringing to my attention Gershom Bader as the…
The Ancillary Benefits of Non-Jews on the Hebrew Book
…Morteira (1596-1660). As Dr. S. Z. Leiman has noted (see Ali Sefer 10 [June 1982]: 153-55; reprinted in Givat Shaul, ed. Hayyim Eliezer Reich [Brooklyn, NY: [n.p.], 1991]) there is…
Jews, Medicine and the University of Padua A Behind the Scenes Tour of a New Exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Padua November 2, 2022- December 31, 2022
…to the diploma, there are two sets of books on a table under the medallion, all of them labeled with the names of secular authors who were part of the…
A Few Comments Regarding The First Woodcut Border Accompanying The Prague 1526 Haggadah
…Rokeah published in Fano in 1505.[6] But that title page is really one of the more basic forms of the title page, known as a “label title page” providing only…
Kitniyot and Stimulants: Coffee and Marijuana on Passover
…and grasses are in rows, and everything is so clean, it is a testament to human intelligence. Every plant is labeled. There are plants from America, Portugal and Turkey all…
Who was Reb Shlomo?
…rolled into one, with a touch of Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain.[1] Indeed, Shlomo just didn’t seem to fit into any restrictive defining label. Menachem Daum, in a video report…
The Anonymous Author of Tikkunei Zohar and Ra‘ya Mehemna: An Antinomian or a Radical Maimonidean?
…modern mystery novel by Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon [Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1998], p. 44.) One who found absolutely outrageous the labeling of the Mishnah as…
Beyond the Masthead of the Beys Yaakov Journal, 1923-1980 – Part 2: ‘Abomination’ or Scandal? Mistranslation, Journalism, and the Halivni Controversy
…“Ideological Labels Changing Along With the Label-Makers,” The New York Times (12 November 1970): 45,48; Israel Shenker, “Man and Machine Match Minds at M.I.T.: 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Seeks…
R. Ahron Soloveichik: “In Defense of My Brother”
R. Ahron Soloveichik: “In Defense of My Brother” Marc B. Shapiro In his recent post here Professor Shnayer Leiman showed how almost magically, things from the past, thought to be…
Index
…Michael 1 · Langermann, Y. Tzvi 1 · Lasker, Daniel J. 3 · Lawee, Eric 1 · Lazar, Menachem 1 · Leibowitz, Aryeh 1 · Leiman, Akiva 1 · Leiman,…
R. Hershel Schachter, Gedolim, Rachel Morpurgo, and More
…of general studies at Yeshivat Chaim Berlin’s high school from 1936-1948. Prof. Shnayer Leiman informs me that this picture of his father has to be from 1940 or earlier.. 5….
Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Women and Mitzvot, Antoninus, the New RCA Siddur, and Rabbis who Apostatized, Part 1
…years ago by Prof. Shnayer Leiman. When R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz’s Luhot Edut was reprinted in 1966, the publisher helpfully added an index of names at the back. What seems to…
Apostates and More, Part 2
…Prof. Shnayer Leiman’s email published in Chaim Dalfin’s new book, Torah Vodaas and Lubavitch (Brooklyn, 2019), p. 203. There was a rabbi who allegedly was killed by mobsters. I heard…