This is the bookplate of Samuel Apolant (1823-1902), a German rabbi and teacher. Born to innkeeper Lewin Apolant and Miriam Perl, Samuel grew up in Deutsch-Krone, West Prussia. He received a Talmudic education there, and moved to Berlin at seventeen…
Sigmund Seeligmann (1873-1940) was a German-Dutch scholar of Judaism, historian, and a bibliographer. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, Seeligmann came to Amsterdamin 1884, later studying at its rabbinical seminary.
This is the bookstamp of Emil Wassermann. Emil, who was born on May 12th 1842 in Wallerstein, Germany and died on November 12th 1911 in Berlin, Germany, was the initiator of the banking tradition in the Wassermann Family. He owned and directed A.E.…
Sefer ʻOlat Hodesh ha-Shelishi is part three of Eleaar ben David Fleckeles's sermons, which bear the collective title 'Olat ḥodesh. Fleckeles wote 'Olat Hodesh in four parts, containing sermons, a criticism of Mendelssohn's translation of the…
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…
Sefer ha-Hayyim ("the Book of Life") is a book of Jewish ethics. It was written by Hayyim ben Bezalel (Poland, c. 1520-1588). Hayyim ben Bezalel studied with Shalom Shachna and Solomon Luria (the Maharshal). He succeeded his uncle, Jacob ben Chaim,…
Sefer Rabiyah was written by Rabbi Elyaḳim ben Yehudah ha-Milzahgi (in Hebrew רבי אליקים בן יהודה המילזאהגי; acronym is 'ראביה'). Sefer Rabiyah discusses the writings of Leopold Zunz and Solomon Judah Leob…
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…
Nagid u-metsaṿeh (first published in Amsterdam 1712) is an anthology of customs in the tradition of Isaac Luria. It was written by Jacob ben Ḥayyim Ẓemaḥ, a Portuguese cabalist and physician. Ẓemaḥ receivedmedical training in Portugal as…