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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.…

Sefer Ḥidushe Maharashdam is a book of Jewish law, written by Daṿid Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ Margaliyot. It contains the signature and stamp of Ya'akov Leib Vẹḳslikhṭ.This copy also has an illegible inscription, which is featured in the…

This is the bookstamp of Dr. Samual Max (Shemu’el Mosheh) Melamed, an American writer and journalist. He received his Ph.D in Jewish philosophy and was considered to be one of the highest ranking Jewish journalists of his time.

Dr. Samuel…

This is the signature of Dr. Samual Max (Shemu’el Mosheh) Melamed, an American writer and journalist. He received his Ph.D in Jewish philosophy and was considered to be one of the highest ranking Jewish journalists of his time.

Dr. Samuel…

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 stamped book cover of Benjamin Aron de Metz (also Benjamin Wolf Aron de Metz Maarsen), who was born in Amsterdam in 1760.

He was the son of Aron Maharam David de Mets Maarsen and Bele David Frankfort. He married Marianne Leon Keijzer…

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…

The is the bookstamp of Solomon I. Mizrahi (1898-1979). Mizrahi was born in Palestine, where he married Regina Barazani in 1921. In 1926 they settled in the Los Angeles area with their children.

Solomon Mizrahi served as rabbi in the Rhodesli…

This is the signature of Samson (Shimshon in Hebrew) ben Joshua Moses Morpurgo (1681-1740), an Italian rabbi and physician.

As a child, Morpurgo was educated in Venice and later studied at the University of Padua where he received his medical…

Sefer Divre Torah is a book of Jewish ethics that includes commentaries from Mosheh ben Hayim mi-Koznitser (-1874), Samuel Shmelke Horowitz (1726-1778), Jacob Isaac ha-Hozeh mi-Lublin (1745-1815), Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apta (-1825), Yerahmi'el…