On Sunday March 22, Haifa’s Maimonides Research Center held its First National Awards Dinner at the Plaza Hotel. Several persons, including Dr. Henry J. Heimlich famous medical innovator and discoverer […]
Aleppo is Syria (which the Jews identified as the Biblical Aram Tzova and called, in short Are”Tz) was for many centuries, a center of Torah studies. The city’s Jewish community […]
Three weeks ago, Yeshayahu Vinograd, director of the Institute for Computerized Bibliography in Jerusalem, came for a short visit to New York. He brought with him his eagerly awaited Thesaurus […]
Scholars, rabbis and writers rubbed shoulders at a reception tendered this week in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Menahem, who have arrived from Israel for a short visit to […]
Two years ago was the centenary of the birth of Chaim Dov Friedberg, well known Hebrew author and bibliographer. He was born and raised in Cracow, lived in Frankfurt and […]
On Rosh Hodesh Sivan, Rabbi Yehuda Rubinstein, the veteran Hebrew bibliographer, died in New York. He was in his eightieth year. Death came to him suddenly. Only a week before […]
The Russian State Library in Moscow– until recently called the V.I. Lenin National Library of the Soviet Union – held an exhibition of Hebrew books last June. The exhibition was […]
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 […]
Yosef Goldman, a New York Hebrew bibliographer and collector of books, recently published Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography. The two volume folio size work is […]
Me’orei Galicia, the five volume “Encyclopedia of Galician Rabbis and Scholars” published in Jerusalem in 1978-1997 has been exceedingly praised by all sectors of our people and hailed as a […]