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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 Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien Bibliothek, the Library of the Jewish Community of Vienna. This library was established in 1814 through the donations from various benefactors including Anton von Schmid, a Christian printer…

This is the bookstamp of the Israelitische Religionsgemeinde zu Dresden. Wünsche-Bibliothekm, the Library of the Jewish community of Dresden.

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 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 bookstamp of Jacob Bachrach, a rabbi, grammarian, and noted proponent of rabbinical Judaism. Jacob Bachrach (also Bacharach or HaBachri) was born in Seiny (Sejny) in the district of Suwalki (then Russia, now Poland) in 1824. He was…

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 the Bibliothek der Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (est.1870), the Library of the Educational Establishment for Jewish Studies.

This instituion was originally called the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft…

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 Louis Lewin (1868-1941), born in Znin, Posen, but raised in Frankfurt am Main. He earned a Ph.D degree at the University of Heidelberg in 1893 for his dissertation on Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai, and obtained rabbinic ordination…