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This is the signature of C. W. H. Pauli (1800-1877), a missionary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews.

Born Zebi Nasi Hirsch Prinz, Pauli later converted to Christianity and became a minister and a missionary in…

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 Rabbi Reuven Yisrael HaLevi Frenkel (also Fraenkel), who was the rabbi in the village of Risashitz near Kalisz, Poland. Rabbi Frenkel was born in 1769 in Lask, Poland, the son of Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi Fraenkel Charif mi-Lissa.…

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 Naḥum (also Nachum) Dober Friedman (1843-1883), rabbi of Sadigura, Bukovina. He was the son of Rabbi Shalom Yosef Friedman of Sadigura. He served as a rabbi in the town of his birth where he was well respected. He died in…

This is the bookstamp of Shalom Yosef Friedman (1871-1927), rabbi of Milnitza. He was the son of Rabbi Naḥum Dober Friedman, whose stamp also appears in the Brisman collection. He has the same name as his grandfather, who served as rabbi in…

This is the signature of Raphael Hanno (1791-1871), a German Christian author.

Hanno was professor of Oriental languages at the University of Heidelberg from 1824 until his death. He focused his writings on the Hebrew language and poetry.

This is the bookstamp of the Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar zu Breslau (est. 1854), the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. It was the first modern rabbinical seminary in Central Europe and ideologically aligned itself in the middle between…

This is the bookstamp of the Bibliothek der Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (est. 1870), the Library of the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies. This rabbinical seminary was established in Berlin under the direction of Abraham Geiger,…

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…