Menachem Mendel

Musings of a Jewish Bookseller has acquired what may be a Gemara volume that was used by Hayyim Nachman Bialik. Read about it here.

Posted on April 23rd, 2013 under Bibliography, Book Collecting, History of Books, Talmud. Comments: 1

The New York Times has a nice article about a book doctor. There are some interesting comments about the differences between “family Bibles” and “study Bibles.” The Bibles that Ms. McKay repairs can be the well-loved regular Bibles of regular churchgoers, marked up on a near-daily basis. Or they can be more than a century [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2013 under Bibliography, Book Collecting. Comments: 1

Below is a video featuring a current exhibit at the Columbia University Library, The People in the Books: Judaica Manuscripts at Columbia University Libraries. The exhibit runs through January 25, 2013.

Posted on December 12th, 2012 under Book Collecting, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Printing, Manuscripts, Public Events. Comments: 2

Here is a short video from the National Library of Israel about their digitization of material.

Posted on November 26th, 2012 under Book Collecting, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Printing. Comments Off

The National Library of Israel has a new blog (Hebrew) and one of the first posts is about the history of Shavuah ha-Sefer ha-Ivri. The roots of Shavuah ha-Sefer go back to the summer of 1926 when a book sale took place on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. On April 1, 1946 the newspaper Davar [...]

Posted on June 13th, 2012 under Book Collecting, Buying Books, Israel, Israeli Culture. Comments Off

For those who are able to take advantage of Hebrew Book Week, שבוע הספר העברי, don’t miss this opportunity to fill up the empty space on your shelves. One related development is the battle by some well-known authors against the deep discounts that are often found during this time period. Ten leading Israeli authors announced [...]

Posted on June 8th, 2012 under Book Collecting, Buying Books, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Printing, Israel. Comments: 1

The Times of Israel has an article about Gershom Scholem’s library and its importance. Although Gershom Scholem is most well-known as a Jewish cultural figure and the definitive scholar of Jewish mysticism and Kabbala, he was also the first head librarian of the nascent National Library’s Judaica collection, from shortly after his aliya in 1923 [...]

Posted on February 21st, 2012 under Book Collecting, Manuscripts, Online resources. Comments Off

The Rambam Library, Sifriyat ha-Rambam, is an important Judaica library that is located at Beit Ariella in Tel Aviv. The director of the library has a very nice blog, Im ha-Sefer, (Hebrew) that has posts about some of the many gems that are found in the library’s collection. He recently posted about some books that [...]

Posted on January 3rd, 2012 under Book Collecting, Rabbinic Literature, Religious Zionism, Sephardic Jewry. Comments: 2

The National Library of Israel has made the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 available online. Fantastic news.

Posted on June 16th, 2011 under Bibliography, Book Collecting, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Printing. Comments Off