I will try to cover the main issues that occur for observant Jews when dealing on ebay, whether buying or selling. The main issues are buying and selling on the Sabbath, when the actual sale occurs Halakhicly...
Why A Jewish Bookshelf Jewish law tradition contain no more interesting regulations that those which deal with the care and treatment of books. The custom, for example, of kissing a Hebrew book which...
The first Hebrew books were printed at least within 35 years after the invention of printing-the first dated ones being Rashi’s commentary on the torah and Arba’ah Turim of 1475. The early book publications...
History of LADINO Printing, Books Publishing The Western Sephardim of France, and late of other parts of Europe like Northern Germany, Holland and England, did not read their Spanish in Hebrew characters, but...
The Third Period of Ladino printing continuation from part II The third period of Ladino printing starts off with Ladino books published in Vienna since 1811 by the gentile printer Anton Schmidt, for a market...
I figured this might be of some use to some collectors of Yiddish Poetry out there. Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the Yiddish language include: A Moyshe Altman Froim Oyerbakh Zelik Akselrod...
The Second Period of Ladino printing contination from part I The 2nd period of Ladino printing, was not simply of revival or a reprinting of what had been done before. It was an utterly new phenomenon, the...
Divre Shalom was published in 1920 in St Louis. It contains Responsa, homiletics, and novellae by R. Shalom b. Asher Israelson (1861-1931). R. Israelson was born in Joniskis, Kovno Province and studied with R....
After finding out that Gwyneth Paltrow's great-great-grandfather, whose surname was "Paltrowicz," was a rabbi in Nowogród, Poland, I hasted to add it to the description of the books of his I had for sale. Sure...