Menachem Mendel

The Seforim Blog has posted a list of hard-to-find and out-of-print books for sale. This is only the first list, with more to come. It includes a number of titles from Magnes Press.

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 under Buying Books. Comments Off

Ami Eden at JTA brings a very funny video from a friend of ours, Joel Chasnoff. Joel is extremely funny and his new book, The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah: A Memoir, is the real reason (see here) that you should go to the YU book sale which will [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 under Buying Books. Comments: 1

Today I heard a talk given by Rabbi Zvi Berger about religion in Israel. One thing that he pointed out which I found very interesting is that Avigdor Shinan’s commentary on Pirkei Avot is the number one non-fiction best seller in Israel and has been on the best seller list for sixteen weeks.

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 under Buying Books, Israel, Rabbinic Literature. Comments: 5

Aharon Shemesh has a new book coming out soon, Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis. Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon [...]

Posted on October 18th, 2009 under Book Collecting, Buying Books, Early Rabbinic Law, Jewish Law. Comments: 3

The JNUL has recently added a service through which one can receive updates of all recently catalogued books through an RSS feed. A few times a week they publish listings, which on the average have been between 75-100, of newly catalogued items and through a link one can see the full listing in their catalogue. [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2008 under Book Collecting, Buying Books. Comments: 3

I just had to look up something in The Talmud-The Steinsaltz Edition: A Reference Guide. Luckily I was given one as a gift a number of years ago, but does anyone know why this hasn’t been reprinted? Used copies are selling for around $70 to $150 or more. While published by Random House, the copyright [...]

Posted on February 12th, 2008 under Buying Books, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments: 3

There is a recent post at Seforim which among many interesting topics, discusses some opinions as to “How much effort should people put into learning?,” or maybe more appropriately, “How much effort do people put into learning?” In medieval Ashkenaz, more than one teacher complained about both their students and the general level of learning. [...]

Posted on January 14th, 2008 under Buying Books, Education, History of Books, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments: 5