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The Ancillary Benefits of Non-Jews on the Hebrew Book

The Ancillary Benefits of Non-Jews on the Hebrew Book

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In the history of the Hebrew book, the books, like the Jews themselves, have been subject to external persecution. Thus, some books and manuscripts have been totally lost. On the other hand there are a few examples of books or, as we shall soon demonstrate, technices that are are a product of external influences. Abraham Ibn Ezra had a very hard life. In his well-known formulation that appears at the beginning of his commentary to the Humash, he complains that…

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Shavua HaSefer sale on Hardrives

Shavua HaSefer sale on Hardrives

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Annual Shavua HaSefer sale on computerized (digital) Seforim Libraries. 1) Otzar HaChochma This year the sale will be 30% off the regular price. The sale will be from June 7 thru June 27. The prices are as follows: Full version (30,300 vol.) reg. 1920 sale $1299 Bnei Torah version (29,000 vol.) reg 1720 sale $1175 Library version (30,300 vol.) reg 1120 sale $820 There are also TWO additional optional sections that can be added to any of the above versions:…

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SEFORIM HARD DRIVES SALES UPDATE etc.

SEFORIM HARD DRIVES SALES UPDATE etc.

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The Otzrot HaTorah (AKA “The Morgenstern Library”) is now ON SALE thru June 30. The library contains 13,000 volumes in the “regular” version and 14,000 volumes in the “expanded” edition. The SALE prices are as follows: Expanded edition: Reg. price $1990 SALE price: $1480. Standard edition: Reg. price $1480 SALE price: $1160. There is a payment plan of (up to) 20 monthly payments. Payments can be made by cash, check or credit card. For those making a one time payment…

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Sale On Hebrew Book Harddrives

Sale On Hebrew Book Harddrives

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This year the sale will be 33% off the regular price of Otzar HaChomah. The sale runs from May 13 through June 7. The prices are as follows: Full version (25,800 vol.) reg. 2275 sale 1520 Bnei Torah version (24,500 vol.) reg 2050 sale 1370 Gemara v’Halacha (18,700 vol.) reg 1525 sale 1020 Tanach u’Midrash (17,200 vol.) reg. 1525 sale 1020 also an additional 2,400 from Kehos Publishing is $70 All of the above include a “search engine” which is…

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New Torah u-Madda Journal, available online in PDF; and Criticisms of Menachem

New Torah u-Madda Journal, available online in PDF; and Criticisms of Menachem

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After I posted the Table of Contents to the latest volume of the Torah u-Madda Journal, no. 14 (2006/2007), at the Michtavim blog last week — note, this post has been updated with the links to the PDFs, hosted at YUTorah.org — I received some very harsh criticisms for my laxity in providing links to the PDFs, including one noteworthy email. To add insult to injury, the accuser sent me criticisms via an anonymous email address! See here [PDF].

Moritz Steinschneider and Ugaritic

Moritz Steinschneider and Ugaritic

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ManuscriptBoy: Moritz Steinschneider’s online presence has been significantly augmented by the Jewish National Library’s Digitized Book Repository. They seem to have scanned all of his German books, as well as the Hebrew translation of his general work ‘Sifrut Yisrael’. And also includes an interesting anecdote that someone once told me how Prof. Moshe Bar Asher shut himself in a room for a couple of days, and emerged having taught himself Ugaritic.

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg on Prof. Saul Lieberman

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg on Prof. Saul Lieberman

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Published several weeks ago, Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, Executive Editor of both the Intermountain Jewish News and of Tradition, has written a ‘Review Essay’ (“Discontinuities: The Case of Saul Lieberman,” reviewing Elijah J. Schochet and Solomon Spiro’s Saul Lieberman: The Man and His Work), in Tradition 40:3 (Fall 2007): 69-75. A PDF of this article is only available to subscribers to TraditionOnline and/or members of the Rabbinical Council of America. While the aim of a “Review Essay” is usually focused on…

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the Michtavim blog, an affiliate of the Seforim blog

the Michtavim blog, an affiliate of the Seforim blog

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Over the next weeks, in addition to posting my musings on a daily basis, I will be adapting a selection of my previous posts from my AJHistory blog (a”h) and the Seforim blog and placing them at the Michtavim blog. For now, see the following few links for my new posts at the Michtavim blog. — “From the Archives of the Royal Library in Metz” (link) — “305th yahrzeit of R. Yair Hayyim Bacharach (1638-1702)” (link) — “The Sermons and…

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JQR Forum in honor of 25th anniversary of Prof. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s “Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory”

JQR Forum in honor of 25th anniversary of Prof. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s “Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory”

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In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Professor Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, the Jewish Quarterly Review published a special forum with articles by David N. Myers, Moshe Idel, Peter N. Miller, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi and Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, in the latest issue of Jewish Quarterly Review 97.4 (Fall 2007). Jewish Quarterly Review, established in 1889 and currently the oldest English-language journal in the field of Jewish studies, is published by…

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Barukh Dayan Ha-Emet: Rabbi Dr. Noah Rosenbloom

Barukh Dayan Ha-Emet: Rabbi Dr. Noah Rosenbloom

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For those who have not seen the obituary notice in the New York Times (Aug 14, 2007; B6), the Seforim blog records the passing of Rabbi Dr. Noah Rosenbloom, a pulpit rabbi for over fifty years and longtime faculty member at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. He was the author of Luzzatto’s Ethico-Psychological Interpretation of Judaism: A Study in the Religious Philosophy of Samuel David Luzzatto (New York: Yeshiva University, 1965); Tradition in an Age of Reform: The Religious…

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Obituary for R. Yosef Tzvi Dunner, zt”l (Dei’ah veDibur)

Obituary for R. Yosef Tzvi Dunner, zt”l (Dei’ah veDibur)

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As a followup to a previous post, here is an excerpt from the obituary for R. Yosef Tzvi Dunner, zt”l, that appeared in Dei’ah veDibur: At the age of 19 he wanted to leave home to study in one of the illustrious yeshivas of Lithuania, but his father felt that given the dearth of rabbonim in Germany communities, before going to yeshiva he should study at a place that provides rabbinical training (smichus). He sent the young man to Beis…

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Second Annual Dr. Asher Siev Memorial Lecture at YU

Second Annual Dr. Asher Siev Memorial Lecture at YU

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The Second Annual Dr. Asher Siev Memorial Lecture will be delivered by A Non-Orthodox Traditional Approach: Reflections on the Authority of the Moroccan Rabbinate Dr. Marc B. Shapiro (University of Scranton) Tuesday, March 20th 8:00 PM Rubin Shul – Yeshiva University Wilf Campus Refreshments will be served Sponsored by the Torah u-Madda Lecture Series, Center for Jewish Future For more information, please contact mbutler@yu.edu Dr. Marc B. Shapiro is the Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies and director…

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