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(Conclusion) Most of the testimonies published in Preserved Evidence were, seemingly gathered in recent years. Decades earlier, the same survivors were reluctant to testify about their sufferings and experiences during […]

Liepman Philip Prins- His Scholarly Correspondence, which was published by Ktav some time ago, presents us with the story and scholarly correspondence of an extraordinary man: A layman steeped in […]

(Continued from last week) The Bibliophile Rabbi Maimon was probably the greatest lover and collector of Sefarim of our time. The love of books was implanted in him by his […]

Historical sources attest to the presence of Jews in Hanover’s Altstadt (old city) in 1292. Suffering during the Black Death persecutions as well as expulsion were the lot of the […]

Though only few copies of the Venice Haggadah of 1609 are extant, many a reader may have a feeling that he had already seen quite a number of its pictures; […]

Rabbi Simha Kook is the scion of well-known Jerusalem families. His grandfather Rabbi Dov Kook, was a brother of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of Modern Palestine. […]

Soon after the establishment of the State of Israel, thousands of Bene-Israel immigrated there. They settled all over the country, mixing with the local Jewish population and with Jewish immigrants […]

Rabbi Elazar Hurvitz, a member of the faculty of Yeshiva University, is the editor of excellent editions of works by Rishonim. He is also a very diligent student of the […]