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This is the signature of Fowler Comings (born 1727 or 1728), an English reverend and author. He was also a fellow of Hertford College of Oxford, where he studied Hebrew. Among his published works was "The Printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament…

This is the signature of Eliyahu Simha (also Symcha Elia) Etkind (1890-194[2]), a Russian accountant.

He was born in Mogilev, Russia in 1890. In WWI he served in the Russian Tsar’s army and was captured by the Germans. He was in German…

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 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…

This is the signature of Abraham Langleben, a Polish writer and tradesman.

He was born in 1881 in Warsaw, where he studied at Raichman's Beit Midrash. He supplemented his schooling with self-study and learned to speak several European languages.…

Zimrat ha-arets is detailed account of the resettlement of Jews in Tiberias in the eighteenth century and the many miracles done at that time. It was written by R. Jacob ben Hayyim Berab (Beirav), a poet and hymnologist. Berab was born in Safed and…

Sefer Zekhirah ṿe-ʻinyene segulot is a book of medicine and folklore written by Zekharyah mi-Plungyan.

This copy was published in Varhsa in 1875 and has an illegible inscription on the title page:

שנו אחלם הן

Sefer Rabiyah was written by Rabbi Elyaḳim ben Yehudah ha-Milzahgi (in Hebrew רבי אליקים בן יהודה המילזאהגי; acronym is 'ראביה'). Sefer Rabiyah discusses the writings of Leopold Zunz and Solomon Judah Leob…

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…

Nagid u-metsaṿeh (first published in Amsterdam 1712) is an anthology of customs in the tradition of Isaac Luria. It was written by Jacob ben Ḥayyim Ẓemaḥ, a Portuguese cabalist and physician. Ẓemaḥ receivedmedical training in Portugal as…