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The Haggadah, which is reproduced here, was printed in Hamburg in the year 1796. In the 18th century the three united Jewish communities of Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbeck were famous […]

This Haggadah was written in 1772 by the scribe Netanel, the son of Aaron Levi, who is identical with the Torah scribe Netanel, the son of Aaron Segal (סג”ל), whose […]

The Haggadah, which is presented here in facsimile, in one of the most beautiful handwritten and illuminated Haggadoth from the eighteenth century. It is the handiwork of Joseph ben David […]

Joseph ben David of Leipnik, Moravia, who wrote and illustrated the Haggadah which is represented here in facsimile, was one of the most prominent Jewish manuscript artists of the eighteenth […]

Dr. Arthur (Dov) Hyman who died last summer in Jerusalem at the venerable age of 91, was both a well known medical authority and a prominent Judaic scholar. His father, […]

Rabbi Yaakov Emden was both a brilliant writer and a prolific author. There were not many rabbis in his generation who wielded a pen as facile as his and wrote […]

On October 5, 1952, a man carrying a briefcase containing a clock and explosives was apprehended near the Foreign Office in the government quarters of Tel Aviv. The man’s name […]

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 […]

Travel Impressions About five hundred Jews live in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) They are dispersed over eight communities. Two hundred live in East Berlin. The East Berlin Jewish […]

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 […]