{"title":"Epigonism and the Beginning of Orthodox Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe","authors":"H. Gertner","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81986390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Perfect Book for a Bibliographer","authors":"H. Dekker","doi":"10.2143/SR.38.0.2019344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.38.0.2019344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85718523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lost Manuscripts of the Library for Jewish Studies in Warsaw","authors":"B. Richler","doi":"10.2143/SR.38.0.2019358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.38.0.2019358","url":null,"abstract":"Benjamin Richler It took the German SS three months to plunder the Library for Jewish Studies beside the Great Synagogue on Ttomackie St in Warsaw.1 They began hauling away its books and manuscripts on 23 October 1939 and eventually emptied the library of its contents on 22 December. To the best of my knowledge, none of the 40,000 printed books and 150 Hebrew manuscripts survived the war. The library had been established in 1879 when the building of the new progressive synagogue on 5 Ttomackie St was completed.2 Construction of the new synagogue and its modern library had been planned since i860 and took almost twenty years to complete. At first, the small Judaica library of about 2,500 volumes was housed in a room near the entrance to the synagogue. By 1884 the collection had grown to 2,850 titles of printed Hebraica bound in 3,800 volumes and close to 3,000 titles of non-Hebrew books. Its manuscripts numbered 22, many acquired for the library by Ignace Bernstein (1836-1909), a researcher and collector of Jewish folklore, and a patron of the institution. In 1893 Bernstein presented 19 valuable Hebrew manuscripts, many of them dating from as early as the fourteenth century, which he had purchased from Sussman Jabetz who had bought them in Jerusalem in 18 61. In 1898 he purchased another set of manuscripts from the Frankfurt bookseller J. Kauffmann.3 By the beginning of the twentieth century, the holdings of the library, now filling three cramped rooms, numbered around 15,000 volumes. It was obvious that new premises had to be found to house the collection and a decision was taken to","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85848995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Date a Rothschild","authors":"David Wachtel","doi":"10.2143/SR.38.0.2019335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.38.0.2019335","url":null,"abstract":"David Wachtel ms 8892 in the collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (jts) is a lavishly illustrated Hebrew prayerbook produced in Italy in the late fifteenth century. Known as the Rothschild Mahzor, its recent history has been well attested in both scholarly literature and in the popular press. 2In the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed over 70,000 volumes in April 1966, the Seminary Library received many donations of books in response to its worldwide appeal for aid in replenishing its holdings. In December of the same year, Baron Edmond de Rothschild of the French branch of that illustrious family presented the mahzor to the Seminary Library.3 The manuscript had descended in the Rothschild family through Edmondo father Maurice (1878-1957) who in turn had inherited it from his own father, the famous philanthropist and patron of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild (1845-1934). A handwritten note in French found in the manuscript described the contents of the mahzor and related that the manuscript had been completed on 24 Adar, in the year 252 (i.e., March-April 1492) in the city of Florence in Tuscany [...fini le 24 Adar de Vannee de la creation 252 ( =MarsAvril 1492) en la ville de Fiorimi en Toscane ]. The Seminary included this information in subsequent press releases and publications, including a partial facsimile edition that appeared in 1983. The dating of 1492 was in full agreement with Rothschild family records, which had consistently catalogued the manuscript as having been produced in that year.4 Naturally, this information seems to derive from the text of the mahzor itself, which contains, interestingly, two separate colophons (figs. 1 and 2): a draft version on folio 477V, the final leaf of the manuscript, as well as an illuminated version on folio 469v.5The texts of the two versions vary only slightly and both are extremely elaborate and extensive, each comprising a page and a half of text beginning on the recto and culminating on the verso of their respective folios. The final paragraph of the colophon, which contains the dating information, reads in part:","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77319097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yiddish Letter from Kosman ben Aaron Segal, 29 September 1789, Hs. Ros. 525","authors":"A. Zwiers","doi":"10.2143/SR.38.0.2019347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.38.0.2019347","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73714923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}