New Book List December 2007
December 2007 New Book List By Eliezer BrodtAs previously mentioned before from time to time we hope to write up lists of new seforim with a short description. Here is a list of some new seforim that...
View ArticleAn Attack and Defense of the ArtScroll Talmud and Addendum to the Dec. 2007...
Ohr Yisrael no. 50 (Tevet, 5768); 256 pages.The new issue of Ohr Yisrael, no. 50. has a couple of articles I wanted to highlight. First, they have a section devoted to essentially whether the...
View ArticleRabbi Hillel Goldberg on Prof. Saul Lieberman
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...
View ArticleMoritz Steinschneider and Ugaritic
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...
View ArticleNew Torah u-Madda Journal, available online in PDF; and Criticisms of Menachem
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...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Debate on the Usage of Print vs. Electronic Journals: Perspective...
I recently had an enjoyable conversation with a former roommate and friend, back from our days at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, who is currently nearing completion of a doctorate at the graduate school of...
View ArticleBibliography of Articles and Books on Nitel
There are three books devoted to the topic of Nitel.Mordechai Menachem Goren, Hefaru Torasecha, Ma'amar Makif miMinhag Avosanu b'Yadanu Odos Lil haAfel Nitel Nacht UMinhag Yisrael l'Vatel meEsek...
View ArticleProf. Elliott Horowitz -- Edmund Wilson, Hebrew, Christmas, and the Talmud
In a previous post at the Seforim blog, Prof. Elliott Horowitz of Bar Ilan University and co-editor of Jewish Quarterly Review, responded to a discussion of Bugs Bunny's purported Jewish identity.This...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Debate on the Usage of Print vs. Electronic Journals: Perspective...
To the Editors of the Seforim blog:I thank C.G. and Menachem for their thoughtful comments regarding Tradition at the Seforim blog (see "The Ongoing Debate on the Usage of Print vs. Electronic...
View ArticleReview of R. Yosef Engel's Tiferes Yosef
Review of Tiferes Yosefby Eliezer BrodtTiferes Yosef, Sefer Shemos, R. Yosef Engel, ed. Friedman, Mochon Ohavei Torah, Monsey, NY, 595 pages, 2007. [845. 426.6152]About four years ago I noticed in the...
View ArticleRabbi Yaakov Kahana??
If anyone has any information about this author -- see here (PDF) -- please email Barnettesq@optonline.net.
View ArticleA Comprehensive (or close to it) List of New Seforim
A Comprehensive (or close to it) List of New Seforimby Eliezer BrodtIn a recent Mishpacha article [November 28, 2007, ‘Seforim Supplement’, p. 48] they quote Shlomo Biegeleisen, of Biegeleisen Books,...
View ArticleElliott Horowitz -- Isaiah Berlin on Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan) and Saul Lieberman
In a previous post at the Seforim blog, Prof. Elliott Horowitz of Bar Ilan University and co-editor of Jewish Quarterly Review, described Edmund Wilson's unique Christmas card and some thoughts on the...
View ArticleBooks Sale and New Auction Catalogs
Henry Hollander Books is having a 50% off sale on selected books. There are a significant number of books on sale, covering many different genres. The catalog is available online and the sale runs...
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Marc B. Shapiro - Forgery and the Halakhic Process, part 3
Forgery and the Halakhic Process, part 3By Marc B. Shapiro I thought that I had exhausted all I had to say about Rabbi Zvi Benjamin Auerbach’s edition of the Eshkol -- see my first two posts at the...
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Leket Yosher - A Closer Appraisal in Light of a Recent Controversy
In a recent discussion in the journal Or Yisrael concerning the permissibility of using ArtScroll gemaras -- for PDFs of the articles, see here -- one source deserves closer scrutiny. In particular,...
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Marc B. Shapiro - Clarifications of Previous Posts
Clarifications of Previous Postsby Marc B. Shaprio [The footnote numbers reflects the fact this is a continuation of this earlier post.]1. I was asked to expand a bit on how I know that R. Barukh...
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About Rabbi Avraham Korman
In his recent post at the Seforim blog, Prof. Marc B. Shapiro mentioned Rabbi Avraham Korman [at note 33] and as some readers have requested additional information on the latter, please see below:
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Pini Dunner -- Mercaz Agudat Ha-Rabbanim Be-Lita, Kovno, 1931
Pini Dunner B.A (Hons), formerly rabbi of London's Saatchi Synagogue, is an avid collector of polemical and controversial Hebraica, with a very large, diverse private collection of such material. Many...
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