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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sefer Meshal ha-Kadmoni

Sefer Meshal ha-Kadmoni [Parables of Antiquity] by Isaac ben Solomon (1244-1300?). With 80 woodcuts. Venice, Paranzoni, 1547.

Parables with moral lessons written in 1281 by a Castilian Hebrew poet, scholar, and kabbalist as a response to the…
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Books Awaiting Digitization at YIVO in New York

Strashun and other books awaiting digitization for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project in New York.
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Strashun Library books being conserved at the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania

Strashun Library books being conserved at the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project.
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