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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 bookstamp of Hermann Adler (1839-1911), chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. He was born in Hannover, Germany in May 1839 to Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler of the prominent Adler rabbinical family. As a small…

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 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 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…

Giovanni Griffio the Elder was likely born in Lyon in 1518 and was a descendant of the Gryphe publishing family, one of the best known dynasties of printers and publishers in Europe in the 16th century. The Gryphe publishing house was originally…

This is the bookstamp of Aron Kagan (Aharon HaKohen), a Lithuanian rabbi. He was born in 1865 to Rabbi Yosef HaKohen and his wife Henya. His grandfather, Rabbi Abraham HaKohen, served as head of the rabbinical court in Goniądz.

Aron Kagan was…

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…

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.…

This is the bookstamp of Eduard (Ede) Ehrlich (1808-1882), a Hungarian rabbi who held posts in several cities throughout his lifetime. Little about his life is documented, aside from a few articles from a local newspaper in which he is mentioned.…