Menachem Mendel

On a tip from an e-mail listserv, some clips from interviews with R. Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Posted on November 16th, 2008 under Jewish Thought, Online resources. Comments: None

From Bloomberg:
Google Inc. will pay $125 million to settle two copyright lawsuits by publishers and authors over its book-scanning project, a “historic” deal that the company said will make millions of books searchable and printable online.

The owner of the most popular Internet search engine said the agreement will expand the Google Book program to [...]

Posted on October 28th, 2008 under Online resources. Comments: None

I have come across a number of interesting lectures and articles by R. Meir Triebitz. The lectures are all available in video or MP3 format. I have only listened to parts of them, but I would recommend them to someone who is interested in getting an introduction to issues in the redaction of [...]

Posted on October 7th, 2008 under Online resources, Talmud. Comments: None

American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) has posted a number of videos for the Yamim Noraim and a source-packet.

Posted on September 25th, 2008 under High Holy Days, Holidays, Online resources. Comments: None

From H-Judaic:

The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization
Project, is pleased to announce that a digitized version of the Library’s
manuscript “Catalonia Mahzor” is now available for public access.
The “Catalona Mahzor” is a Mahzor for Rosh Ha-Shana and Yom Kippur according
to the Spanish Catalonian Rite. It is dated approximately 1280.
The text includes liturgical [...]

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 under Holidays, Liturgy, Manuscripts, Online resources. Comments: None

I recently subscribed to Questia which is an on-line library which features thousands of books, journals, and magazines in digital format. JTS doesn’t subscribe, so I thought that I should look into it. Subscribing to the whole “library” costs about $100 per year, but there is currently a sale for $75 per year. So [...]

Posted on September 10th, 2008 under Online resources. Comments: None

Continuing my interesting in cantillation-related matters, two of the most important books ever published on the subject are available at the Internet Archive and Google Books, both of them by William Wickes.

1. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-one so-called Prose Books of the Old Testament (here and here). In the introduction [...]

Posted on June 11th, 2008 under Bible Studies, Online resources, Synagogue. Comments: 4

Someone pointed out to me a website dedicated to Yeshayahu Leibowitz. Leibowitz, the brother of Nechama Leibowitz, was clearly one of the most colorful and thought-provoking modern Jewish and Israeli thinkers and intellectuals. I still remember bringing a friend of mine to a lecture of his and emphasizing that he shouldn’t sit in [...]

Posted on June 5th, 2008 under Jewish Thought, Online resources. Comments: None

While searching for an article by Prof. Steven Fraade, I came across his website which has a large number of scans of articles that he has published. There are articles on Midrash, Targum, Qumran, etc.

Posted on June 4th, 2008 under Academia, Online resources. Comments: None