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This is the bookstamp of Michael Friedländer (1833-1910), an Orientalist scholar and professor at the Jews' College of London. Friedländer was originally from Posen, where he received his secular education at a local Catholic school and his Jewish…

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…

This is the bookstamp of Meir Loeb (also Leibush) ben Jehiel Michael Malbim (1809-1879), a Russian rabbi and Hebraist. He was born Meir Leibush (Löb) ben Jehiel Michael Wisser. The name Malbim is an acronym derived from the initials of his name.…

This is the bookstamp of Mosheh Mordekhai Yiśraʼel (also Moses Mordecai Yisroel or Israel) Rivkind (1861–1940), a rabbi and maggid (preacher) in the United States.

Rabbi Rivkind grew up in Dvinsk and other Russian towns, where he received his…

This is the bookstamp of Náboženské obce Židovské Praze Knihovna (est. 1857), the library of the Jewish community of Prague.

The library's collection was built from gifts of prominent Jewish donors, such as Koppelmann Lieben, whose…

This is the bookstamp of the Nederlandsch Israëlietisch Seminarium te Amsterdam, which was born out of the theological seminary established in 1810 as the successor institution to the Bet ha-Midrash de Ashkenazim be-Amsterdam ʻEts Ḥayim of the…

This is the bookstamp of Pinkus Fritz (also Friedrich) Frankl (1848-1887), a German rabbi and author.

Dr. P. F. Frankl was educated at the yeshiva in Pressburg and later at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. While Frankl was studying at…

This is the bookstamp of Prager Israelitische Cultus-Gemeinde Bibliothek (est. 1857), the library of the Jewish community of Prague.

The library's collection was built from gifts of prominent Jewish donors, such as Koppelmann Lieben, whose…

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…

This is the bookstamp of Rabbi Reuven Yisrael HaLevi Frenkel (also Fraenkel), who was the rabbi in the village of Risashitz near Kalisz, Poland. Rabbi Frenkel was born in 1769 in Lask, Poland, the son of Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi Fraenkel Charif mi-Lissa.…