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This is the signature of Judah ben Joshua Ezekiel Bachrach (also Bacharach), a rabbi, Talmudist and author.

He was born in Lithuania in approximately 1775 and died in Seiny (Sejny) in the district of Suwalki on April 25, 1846. Rabbi Judah…

This is the bookstamp of Yehuda (also Yehudah or Judah) Soniker, a rabbi who lived in Brooklyn, NY. Soniker was born in Erets Yisrael (Palestine) in 1885 and later immigrated to the United States with his wife and two children.

He was a supporter…

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 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 bookplate of Jakob Klatzkin, a philosopher, prolific author, and ardent Zionist. He was born in 1882 in Kartoz-Brioza (present day Byaroza, Belarus) where his father Eliyahu Klatzkin served as local rabbi. As a child he was educated by…

This is the bookstamp of Dr. Caro Owen Minasian (1897-1973), an Armenian physician, manuscript and book collector, and amateur historian. Dr. Minasian was educated at the English College in Isfahan, Iran. He later went to Europe to study medicine at…

This is the bookstamp of David Meldola, a Hebraist, Talmudist and de facto chief rabbi of the London Sephardic community from 1828 until his death in 1853. Meldola was born in 1797 in Leghorn, where he was ordained as rabbi.

He was the eldest son…

This is the signature of Moses Baruch Caravaglio (also Carvaglio), a wealthy Italian coral merchant active in the 18th century. In the 1730s, along with his father Jacob, his brother Abraham, and his uncle Aaron, Moses ran the family trade business…

This is the bookplate of William Wollaston, esq. of Finborough, Suffolk. Wollaston was born around 1731 and served as colonel of the Eastern Battalion in the Suffolk Militia. He followed in his father William’s footsteps and served as a Member of…

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…