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This is the bookstamp of Rabbi Jacob Moses Content (1818-1898), a rabbi and teacher in Amsterdam. Content studied at the Dutch Israelite Seminary and received his rabbinical ordination in 1838. He also trained to be a teacher.

Content was a…

This is the bookstamp of Jacob Bachrach, a rabbi, grammarian, and noted proponent of rabbinical Judaism. Jacob Bachrach (also Bacharach or HaBachri) was born in Seiny (Sejny) in the district of Suwalki (then Russia, now Poland) in 1824. He was…

This is the bookstamp of Joseph Chasanowich (also Chazanowicz) (1844-1919), a Russian physician and founder of the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem. As a physician, Chasanowich was dedicated to helping the poor, and would accept books as payments…

This is the bookstamp of the Bibliothek der Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (est.1870), the Library of the Educational Establishment for Jewish Studies.

This instituion was originally called the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft…

This is the bookstamp of Lelio (also Hillel) Della Torre (1805-1871), an Italian rabbi and professor. Della Torre began his teaching career in 1823 as a tutor in Hebrew and biblical exegesis at the Collegio Colonna e Finzi in Turin. In 1827 he was…

This is the bookstamp of Louis Lewin (1868-1941), born in Znin, Posen, but raised in Frankfurt am Main. He earned a Ph.D degree at the University of Heidelberg in 1893 for his dissertation on Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai, and obtained rabbinic ordination…

This is the bookstamp of Michael Friedländer (1833-1910), an Orientalist scholar and professor at the Jews' College of London. Friedländer was originally from Posen, where he received his secular education at a local Catholic school and his Jewish…

This is the bookstamp of Max Dienemann (1875-1939), German rabbi and author. Dienemann studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1898. He simultaneously studied Semitic Philology at the University of…

This is the bookstamp of Meir Loeb (also Leibush) ben Jehiel Michael Malbim (1809-1879), a Russian rabbi and Hebraist. He was born Meir Leibush (Löb) ben Jehiel Michael Wisser. The name Malbim is an acronym derived from the initials of his name.…

This is the bookstamp of Mosheh Mordekhai Yiśraʼel (also Moses Mordecai Yisroel or Israel) Rivkind (1861–1940), a rabbi and maggid (preacher) in the United States.

Rabbi Rivkind grew up in Dvinsk and other Russian towns, where he received his…