I am a big fan of the Artscroll book, The Rishonim, and I just saw in an ad of their’s that the companion volume, The Early Achronim, is back in print. Any quibbles with some of the biographical or bibliographical information found in these books, is off-set IMHO by the quick reference which they [...]
R. Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitz is the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including the commentary on the Mishneh Torah, Yad Peshutah. I am no fan of R. Rabinovitz’s politics, but I do find his halakhic writings challenging and informative. I am therefore looking [...]
From Benjamin Richler on H-Judaic:
New publication from The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Yerushalmi Neziqin, edited from the Escorial Manuscript, with an
introduction by E.S. Rosenthal; introduction and commentary by S. Lieberman.
Now includes fragments from the Italian Genizah, with introductions by David
Rosenthal. Third printing Jerusalem 2008 (first printing Jerusalem 1983). vi
+ 275 + 39 pp. ISBN [...]
Here are some new books which I have seen catalogued at the JNUL in the past few weeks and that I haven’t seen mentioned on other blogs.
1. A new edition of Ginat Veradim on כללי הש”ס by R. Yosef Teumim.
2. The Book of Psalms with the Hebrew and an English translation. What was interesting, [...]
From a post by Benjamin Richler at H-Judaic:
The Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Bikkurim [chapt. i], Part 1. Published for
the first time with the emendations and commentary of Rabbi Eliyahu, the
Gaon of Vilna, from a manuscript written in his own hand, together with
additional emendations and comments found in the notes of his disciples.
Edited by Yedidya Halevi Fraenkel. [...]
Since the 19th century Talmud scholars have been writing about the Saboraic introductions to Talmudic tractates, a phenomenon already pointed out by Rav Sherira Gaon. See here for a recent discussion from a very good, although ridiculously expensive, book. It seems like there is still room for more to be written as an [...]
Bar-Ilan UP has a few new titles. Prof. Tzvi Aryeh Steinfeld has published a new book, עם לבדד : מחקרים במסכת עבודה זרה. My guess is that this is a colleciton and reworking of the articles which he has published on this topic in the past. One can read online the table [...]
I have written before about R. Ovadiah Yosef’s attitude towards different customs, and this recently published book looks like it will be an interesting addition to the literature on the subject.
I received an email from the Jewish Publication Society asking for money to help fund the following project.
Lost Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Relating to Scripture– Help us recover the lost library of ancient Israel. This 2-million word volume will bring together over 100 texts written by Jews during the period of the Second Temple (from [...]
Recently Harvard University Press has published a collection of article by I.M. Ta-Shema in English. The book-Creativity and Tradition: Studies in Medieval Rabbinic Scholarship, Literature and Thought-is a collection of articles that were either already published in English or were intended to be published in English. I haven’t seen it so I can’t comment on [...]
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