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This is the signature and purchase inscription of Gabriel Agol, son of Mosheh, in a copy of David de Pomis's Tsemaḥ Daṿid. Sources mention a Jew named Gabriel Agol living in Cuneo in 1607. A teacher and secretary in the Cuneo community named…

This is an ownership inscription by Italian poet and grammarian Shmuel Arkevolty, found on the title page of Sefer ʻikarim by Joseph Albo (Venice : Giovanni Farri, 1543 or 1544).

The Hebrew text reads:
לה הארץ ומלואה
קנין…

This is the signature of Shimeon Brisman (1920-2004), a librarian, bibliographer, and rabbi who provided the Washington University Libraries with the collection that bears his name.

Shimeon Brisman was born in Poland. At the outbreak of World War…

This is the bookstamp of Shimeon Brisman (1920-2004), a librarian, bibliographer, and rabbi who provided the Washington University Libraries with the collection that bears his name.

Shimeon Brisman was born in Poland. At the outbreak of World War…

This is the signature of Dr. Samual Max (Shemu’el Mosheh) Melamed, an American writer and journalist. He received his Ph.D in Jewish philosophy and was considered to be one of the highest ranking Jewish journalists of his time.

Dr. Samuel…

This is the signature of Samuel Apolant (1823-1902), a German rabbi and teacher. Born to innkeeper Lewin Apolant and Miriam Perl, Samuel grew up in Deutsch-Krone, West Prussia. He received a Talmudic education there, and moved to Berlin at seventeen…

Luaḥ ha-peʻalim is a book of Hebrew grammar written by Judah Leib Ben Ze'ev (1764-1811), who was the first Jewish scholar to apply Western research methods to the study of Hebrew. Born near Cracow, Ben Ze'ev received a traditional Jewish…

Sefer Ot Emet is a comprehensive work on the laws of reading in a Sefer Torah, related blessings, and customs by R. Yehudah ben Manoah ben Ya'akov Said.

R. Said is considered among the great rabbis of his generation. He was born in Dobnitza and…

This is the bookplate of Samuel Apolant (1823-1902), a German rabbi and teacher. Born to innkeeper Lewin Apolant and Miriam Perl, Samuel grew up in Deutsch-Krone, West Prussia. He received a Talmudic education there, and moved to Berlin at seventeen…

Sigmund Seeligmann (1873-1940) was a German-Dutch scholar of Judaism, historian, and a bibliographer. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, Seeligmann came to Amsterdamin 1884, later studying at its rabbinical seminary.

Seeligmann built one of the most…