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This is the bookstamp of Heinrich (also Hayim) 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…

This is the bookstamp of Josef Bursztyn (Joseph Burstyn), a Polish merchant. He was born on July 9th, 1894 in Nodwarna, Poland to Beila and Issachar.

The photograph above shows Josef on the day of his wedding to Blanca Kessler in Vienna, circa…

This is the bookstamp of Joseph Chasanowich (also Chazanowicz) (1844-1919), a Russian physician and founder of the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem. As a physician, Chasanowich was dedicated to helping the poor, and would accept books as payments…

This is the bookstamp of Salomon (also Solomon) Cohn (1822-1902), a German rabbi and author. He was born in Zülz, Prussian Silesia on March 24th, 1822. His grandfather was the famous rabbi at Fürth, Meshullam Solomon Cohn.

Salomon Cohn was…

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 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 signature of Naḥman Nathan Coronel (also Koronel), a Dutch rabbi, preacher and author.

He was born in Amsterdam in 1810 to a Sephardi father (Rabbi David) and Ashkenazi mother. He studied at the local Talmud Torah and at the…

Sefer Ḥidushe Maharashdam is a book of Jewish law, written by Daṿid Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ Margaliyot. This copy was published in Vilna in 1876. The title page is signed by Ya'akov Leib Wakslicht from Lublin (featured separately on the…

This is the bookstamp of Lelio (also Hillel) Della Torre (1805-1871), an Italian rabbi and professor. Della Torre began his teaching career in 1823 as a tutor in Hebrew and biblical exegesis at the Collegio Colonna e Finzi in Turin. In 1827 he was…

This is the bookstamp of Max Dienemann (1875-1939), German rabbi and author. Dienemann studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1898. He simultaneously studied Semitic Philology at the University of…