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This is the stamped book spine of Salomone Servi, a deputy rabbi in Pitigliano, Italy. He was the son of Salomone Servio and Dolce Sadun. He married Debora Lattes (1860-1925), daughter of Isacche Lattes and Giuditta Sadun. They had four children:…

This is the signature of Aldo Servi, an Italian mechanical engineer.

He was born in Pitigliano in 1881 and died in Milan in 1963. He was the son of Salomone Servi, deputy rabbi of Pitigliano, and Debora Lattes. The Servi family was at one point…

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…

This is the bookstamp of Shmuel (also Samoil, Samuel) Meir Schon, a Romanian merchant. Schon was born in Nagyvarad, Romania on October 20th, 1881 to Yosef (Herman) and Miriam (Maria) nee Hoffman.

He married Nekha (Nina) nee Porges and they had…

This is the signature of Shmuel Meier (also Samoil or Samuel) Schon, a Romanian merchant.

Schon was born in Nagyvarad, Romania on October 20th, 1881 to Yosef (Herman) and Miriam (Maria) nee Hoffman. He married Nekha (Nina) nee Porges and they had…

This is the bookplate of Elkan Nathan Adler (1861-1946), an Anglo-Jewish author, lawyer, historian, and bibliophile. He is famous for being the first European to enter the Cairo Genizah and bringing more than 25,000 fragments back to England.…

This is the bookstamp of Adolf Salvendi (1837-1914), a rabbi and member of Hovevei Zion (a Zionist organization). Salvendi served as a rabbi in Berent, Prussia and later as district rabbi in various communities in Frankenthal, Bavaria.

Salvendi…

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 bookstamp of “Sa’adat Bahurim,” a society established in 1760 as a framework to support students of poor financial standing attending the Bet ha-Midrash de Ashkenazim be-Amsterdam ʻEts Ḥayim (house of learning for Ashkenazim) in…

This is the bookstamp of Dott. (Dr.) Hayim Rozenberg (also Rosenberg) (1876-1938), who served as rabbi of Ancona from 1909-1938.

Rabbi Rozenberg was born in Lipany, Slovakia. He studied at the Italian Rabbinical College in Florence. He received…