I just stumbled upon the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. It includes information regarding approximately 90,000 manuscripts, most of which have been sold in auctions during the past 100 years. You can search by author, seller, etc. The information provided often includes the selling price of the mss., so if you’re in the market for something [...]
A few months ago I came across a book holder=shtender on the web and soon after I ordered it. While I do have a number of standard olive-wood shtenders, I was looking for something a bit stronger with some additional features. Dainoff Designs makes a number of models of the Atlas Book Holder, the basic [...]
Prof. Shamma Friedman’s web site has a number of articles, including an interesting lecture on Rashi’s Commentaries to the Tractates of the Talmud (in Hebrew). From this lecture I arrived at this interesting article, “New Methods for Attribution of Rabbinic Literature” by Prof. Moshe Koppel, which examines the use of automated text categorization and Rabbinic [...]
The Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research is currently having a sale. The following was in an email which I received from them. There was no information regarding how long this sale will last. NON-SUBSCRIPTION SINGLE COPIES OF THE BASIC (BLACK) VERSION OF THE SOL AND EVELYN HENKIND TALMUD TEXT DATABANK MAY NOW BE EXCHANGED [...]
Recently I decided to move over as much as possible from Windows to Mac OS X, and with that in mind I bought a Macbook (when I am working at home I connect it to a larger screen). Since I am convinced of the better computing experience that one gets from a Mac, I thought [...]
Moshe Dayan was appointed defense minister in the week before the Six-Day War (at my father’s recommendation see this book for details), one of the many events in the days before a war which changed the Middle East. But for those not being threatened with annihilation, although its influence was later also important for Israeli [...]
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