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]…
The Letter of the Maharal on the Creation of the Golem
The Letter of the Maharal on the Creation of the Golem: A Modern Forgery By: Shnayer Leiman For a related post by Dr. Leiman see “Did a Disciple of the…
Birkat Ha-Hammah in the Old Jewish Cemetary of Frankfurt
Birkat Ha-Hammah in the Old Jewish Cemetery of Frankfurt by Shnayer Leiman On Wednesday, April 5, 1617 (= 29 Adar Sheni, 5377), birkat ha-hammah was recited throughout the Jewish world….
A Desperate Plea for Help on Behalf of Vilna’s Old Jewish Cemetery
A Desperate Plea for Help on Behalf of Vilna’s Old Jewish Cemetery in 1919 By Shnayer Leiman Recently, a brief study was posted online on Meir Zelmanovich, the custodian of…
Hirschian Humanism After the Holocaust: An Analysis of the Approach of Rabbi Shimon Schwab
…Anonymous, “A Letter Regarding ‘the Frankfurt Approach’,” ha-Ma’ayan, vol. 6, no. 4 (1966): 4-7 (Hebrew) A translation of this anonymous essay appears in Shnayer Z. Leiman, “From the Pages of…
Change Has Come To Modena
…did two things. Firstly, I wrote to Dr. Shnayer Leiman and asked him about the Kitzur Shelah and its use of the word Nezer Rosheinu. This is what Dr. Leiman…
