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Textual Emendations in Minhag Anglia

Textual Emendations in Minhag Anglia

Textual Emendations in Minhag Anglia Harry Freedman Harry Freedman’s The Talmud: A Biography is published by Bloomsbury Publications. His next book, The Murderous History of Bible Translations will be published by Bloomsbury in 2016 In his book Changing the Immutable Mac Shapiro notes that, for reasons of propriety, the Birnbaum siddur transliterates the words מי רגליים in פטום הקטרת [1], instead of translating them. Philip Birnbaum was not the only translator to be troubled by these words. In 1890 Rev….

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