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 […]
Jerusalems of the Exile
Several years ago I wrote in Ohr HaMizrach (vol. 24, numbers, 3-4, Nissan-Tammuz 5740) about the “Jerusalems of the Exile”. I listed cities and towns, which Jews called “second” or […]
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 […]
Dr. Hillel Seidman Passes Away
Author of Warsaw Ghetto Diary Dr. Hillel Seidman, one of the best-known religious Jewish writers and journalists died Monday, Ellul 2, (August 28) in New York. He was reported to […]
Lubavitch in Hungary
The night before I left Budapest to return to New York, I phoned Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, the Lubavitch emissary in Hungary for for some information. When I apologized for phoning […]
The Rabbinic Periodical VaYelaket Yosef
VaYelaket Yosef, a rabbinic fortnightly, appeared in Bonyhad, Hungary for 20 years, from 1898-1917. The journal’s publisher and editor was Rabbi Yosef HaKohen Schwartz, a son of Rabbi Naftali HaKohen […]
Translations of the Talmud
To the Editor: I read with great interest Rabbi Adam Mintz’ “Words, Meaning and Spirit. The Talmud in Translation,” The Torah U-Madda Journal 5 (1994). Rabbi Mintz deals largely with […]
‘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 […]
The Hidden Books of the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus
Judaica auctions in Israel are timed to take place around the period of the Jewish holidays, when the country is flooded with visitors from abroad. “Judaic Jerusalem” which is headed […]