- Item Type: Books
- Item Type: Books
Shefa‘ tal
Shefa‘ tal (Abundance of dew; also means priestly hand blessing), by Shabetai Sheftel ben Akiva Horowitz, Bilzorka, 1807. This kabbalistic work was issued by one of the many small presses that emerged in the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth…
Sefer Arbaah ve-esrim
Sefer Arbaah ve-esrim [Four and Twenty] by Rabbi Jedidiah Solomon Raphael ben Abraham Nortzi. Mantua, First edition.
One-volume Five Books of Moses, Megillot, Prophets, Bible contains four parts of the Chamisha Chumshei Torah, Megillot, Nevi’im…
One-volume Five Books of Moses, Megillot, Prophets, Bible contains four parts of the Chamisha Chumshei Torah, Megillot, Nevi’im…
Sefer Elim
Page from Sefer Elim by Joseph Solomon Delmedigo. Amsterdam, 1628.
Born in Crete to a distinguished Sephardic family, Delmedigo was the son of Rabbi Elija Delmedigo. After receiving a traditional Jewish education, he was admitted at age 15 to the…
Born in Crete to a distinguished Sephardic family, Delmedigo was the son of Rabbi Elija Delmedigo. After receiving a traditional Jewish education, he was admitted at age 15 to the…
Sefer Itim le-vinah
Itim le-vinah by Joseph ben Moses Aaron Ginzberg, Warsaw, 1886.
Itim are appointed times (seasons, months, times of the day) in the Jewish calendar and vinah or binah means wisdom. This book is a fine example of a sefer evronot, a genre that uses…
Itim are appointed times (seasons, months, times of the day) in the Jewish calendar and vinah or binah means wisdom. This book is a fine example of a sefer evronot, a genre that uses…
Rescue of a Book
Label in a book in the YIVO Library:
From the Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection at YIVO
This book is from the YIVO Library in Vilna. During the years of the destruction, friends of YIVO hid it from the Germans, and after the war A. Sutzkever and…
From the Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection at YIVO
This book is from the YIVO Library in Vilna. During the years of the destruction, friends of YIVO hid it from the Germans, and after the war A. Sutzkever and…
Inscriptions from Sefer Shaʻare Teshuvah
Sha'are Teshuvah (The Gates of Repentance), by Yonah ben Abraham Gerondi, (Rabbenu Yonah, d. 1264) is a guide for those who wish to repent and return to a life of Torah. This edition was published in Krakow in 1581. The book was owned by several…
Sefer Shaʻare Teshuvah
Shaarei Teshuvah (The Gates of Repentance), by Yonah ben Abraham Gerondi, (Rabbenu Yonah, d. 1264) is a guide for those who wish to repent and return to a life of Torah. This edition was published in Krakow in 1581. The book was owned by several…
Sefer Kol Bo
Sefer Kol Bo Book [All is Within] by an unknown 13th or 14th-century author is a commentary of Jewish customs and rituals.
This edition was printed in Rimini ca. 1526 by Gershom Soncino. The illustration of the tower on the frontispiece is…
This edition was printed in Rimini ca. 1526 by Gershom Soncino. The illustration of the tower on the frontispiece is…
Sefer Isur Veheter
Sefer Isur ve-heter (What is forbidden and permitted) is a treatise on Jewish dietary laws written by Yonah Ashkenazi, thought to be the son of Rabbi Israel of Regensburg, a student of Rabbi Israel Isserline. (This work is sometimes erroneously…
Netiv lashon ‘ivrit
The stated purpose of Netiv lashon ‘ivrit (Path of the Hebrew language) was to teach Jewish children Hebrew. The anonymous author imagined the book being put to use in Jewish schools. There is no year of publication noted but it is believed that this…