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This is the signature of Moses Baruch Caravaglio (also Carvaglio), a wealthy Italian coral merchant active in the 18th century. In the 1730s, along with his father Jacob, his brother Abraham, and his uncle Aaron, Moses ran the family trade business…

This is the signature of Mordechai Doctor (1868-1926), a Russian rabbi and author.

He was the son of Rabbi Tsvi Hirsch Doctor. According to the Ellis Island passenger records, he arrived in America from Hamburg on December 5th, 1903 at the age of…

This is the signature of Mordecai Samuel ben Benzion Aryeh Ghirondi (1799-1852), an Italian rabbi, professor and bibliophile. He was the grandson of Mazal-Tov Benvenida Ghirondi, who was famous for her teaching skills and lessons on Jewish subjects.…

This is the signature of Menasseh Grossberg (c. 1860-1927), a rabbinical scholar originally from Trestina, Russia.

Grossberg copied and published Hebrew manuscripts from libraries around the world in the cities of Berlin, Paris, London,…

This is the signature of Koppelmann (also Kalman) Lieben (1812-1892), a scholar and bibliophile from Prague.

Lieben was a member of the board of the Prague Jewish community and the secretary of the Prague Burial Society (Hevra Kaddisha).

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This is the signature of Judah ben Joshua Ezekiel Bachrach (also Bacharach), a rabbi, Talmudist and author.

He was born in Lithuania in approximately 1775 and died in Seiny (Sejny) in the district of Suwalki on April 25, 1846. Rabbi Judah…

This is the signature of Jacob (also Jakob) Bernays (1824-1881), a German philologist and Hebrew scholar.

Bernays was one of the first organizers of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau. He was charged with formulating a method of study for…

This is the signature of Rabbi Yitzhak (Isaac, also Ayzik) Berlin (1792 or 93-1865), a rabbi and scholar from Hamburg, Germany. He was born to Rabbi Lase Heilbut of Berlin and Mindell Heilbut. He and his wife, Fanny, had as many as 13…

This is the signature of Heinrich Brody, a Hungarian rabbi and scholar specializing in Hebrew poetry.

He was born in Ungvar, Hungary to Rabbi Solomon Zalman Brody of the famous Brody rabbinical family. His grandfather was Rabbi Solomon Ganzfried,…

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…