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Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Kasovsky, who died recently at the age of eighty- eight, was one of the many great and brilliant scholars with which Jerusalem was blessed in the last […]

While still a child I had read his article on Joseph Trumpeldor, the one- armed hero of Tel Hai, who had died with these words on his lips: “It is […]

The Haggadah of which a reproduction is presented here was written and illustrated in Vienna in the year 1751 by Aaron Schreiber Herlingen, a well-known artist-scribe. Schreiber, who hailed from […]

The Haggadah, which is reproduced here, was printed in Venice in 1716.  It is richly illustrated and includes a Judeo-Italian translation of the text and the Seder instructions as well […]

In the summer of 1863 the Trieste Italian-Jewish monthly ״Corriere Israelitico״ began to carry announcements of the forthcoming publication of a splendid edition of a Haggadah with illustrations, a new […]

For centuries after the invention of printing in Europe, the use of handwritten books was still widespread. There were always individuals who preferred, particularly on festive occasions, to use a […]

Jews settled in Karlsruhe, Germany, not long after its establishment in 1715 by Karl Wilhelm, the margrave of Baden-Durlach, who called upon people to come there irrespective of their religious […]