“Rabbi Maimon in His Generations”
(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 […]
Rabbi Simha Kook
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. […]
Orhot Hasofer on the Hatam Sofer
Ozrot HaSofer is a series of yearbooks devoted to the life and writings of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the Hatam Sofer, published by the London Institute of Otzrot HaSofer, which is […]
Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich Auction (1998)
Interesting Judaica Sale in N.Y. Never before have so many Sifrei Kodesh been printed and reprinted as in our time. Never before has there been such a great interest in […]
Gershon Nof’s Book About the Ridbaz
Gershon Nof presented us recently with a full biography of Rabbi Yaakov David Willowski, known throughout the Torah world as Rabbi Yaakov David ben Zeev- the Ridbaz- the author of […]
Rabbi Shmuel Hubner
In 1952, a Yiddish translation of the Talmud, tractate “Baba Kama” by Rabbi Shmuel Hubner appeared. Nine yeears later his translation of “Baba Metzia” was published. These editions proved to […]
Rabbi Israel Joshua Trunk, The Rabbi of Kutno
Yehoshua Eibeshitz, himself a Holocaust survivor, is known throughout the Jewish world as an author of books, studies, essays and articles about the fate of the Jews in the countries […]
End of ‘Maimonides Year’
This Erev Pesach marks the end of “Maimonides Year.” which was observed on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the birth of the great sage. Though scholars now agree […]
New Biography of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky ZTL
Melech Beyofyo (“The King in his Beauty”) is the name of an extensive biography of the late Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky which recently came off the press in Jerusalem. The two […]
‘The Rebbe – The Story of Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer’
(Continuation) Soon after his arrival in Berlin, Rabbi Hildesheimer established an institution there, as he did in Eisenstadt, for the education of the young. He was assisted in running the […]