Encyclopedia of Galician Rabbis and Scholars
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 […]
Isaac Rivkind
By Saul Lieberman and Tovia Preschel Isaac Rivkind came to the field of Jewish scholarship after years of intensive activity in the Zionist movement in Europe and the United States. […]
Dr. Isaac Rivkind, Bibliographer
Dr. Isaac Rivkind recently wrote: “I am writing this with deep grief and with the feeling that if ‘I will not tell, I will have to bear my sin,’ I […]
The Sale of Sassoon Manuscripts
On May 12, [1981] important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the famous collection of David Sassoon were auctioned off in Sotheby Parke Bernet on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. […]
Ohel Hayim, The Lehmann Bible Manuscripts
Dr. Manfred Lehmann wears many hats. He is a successful businessman, a world traveler, a philanthropist, a bibliophile, a scholar and a publicist. He is not only good at business, […]
Bibliography of Writings of Rabbi Yaakov Emden
By Tovia Preschel Yaakov Emden was one of the most interesting rabbinic personalities of the eighteenth century. Though he served only for a short period of time as the […]