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- Sheitel, circa 1880.
- We hate quackery.
- Dayanim in brown suits and Kabbalah
- A Gaon's seal.
- A blessing for Ibn Ezra.
- Minhag jokes and their historical kernels.
- Selling Torahs and stories
- The Talmud-Memorizer-Performer, Rabbi Hirsch Denmark.
- A Hebrew nomenclature by Judah Monis.
- I review Resurrecting Hebrew by Ilan Stavans.
- How should we pronounce "ibn" as in "ibn Ezra"?
- Haham David Nieto's letter to Christian Theophile ...
- Some notes on a famous penitent apostate, Ezekiel ...
- Kennicott's textual variations of the Hebrew Bible...
- Conversion to Judaism described in 1853.
- Rabbi Akelipa of Posen?
- Female night-ghosts.
- You won't see this sort of thing much anymore; Lit...
- The Second Azaryah de Rossi
- Learning Hebrew, 1797.
- When did they have time to sit for these portraits?
- What's the deal with the R. N.M. Adler-Queen Victo...
- Imagine if he'd written "vuv" and "tuff"
- A description of a way of giving tzedakah from 177...
- Who is this?
- A Benno Jacob story
- A fish story
- Comments
- Manuscript of the Vilna Gaon
- The great Hebrew grammar scandal of 1827.
- Did Hildesheimer's son intermarry? The 1914 source...
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Shadal Series
#1 How was the Tetragrammaton actually pronounced?
#2 On Hirsch's 19 Letters and a controversy about the meaning of it's Hebrew title
#3 On the important role played by printing never-published old works.
#4 Disapproving of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch's predilection for German
#5 What does Morenu really mean?
#6 On facing the truths of history and autobiography
#7 On alienation from his teachers, and a public retraction
#8 To what does "Nothing Jewish is Alien to Me" refer?
#9 Samuel David Luzzatto's Letter to the Ethiopian Jews
#10 On Shimon ben Shetach and the 80 Witches
#2 On Hirsch's 19 Letters and a controversy about the meaning of it's Hebrew title
#3 On the important role played by printing never-published old works.
#4 Disapproving of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch's predilection for German
#5 What does Morenu really mean?
#6 On facing the truths of history and autobiography
#7 On alienation from his teachers, and a public retraction
#8 To what does "Nothing Jewish is Alien to Me" refer?
#9 Samuel David Luzzatto's Letter to the Ethiopian Jews
#10 On Shimon ben Shetach and the 80 Witches
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- Eclectic Jewish Thoughts
- Emes Ve-Emunah
- English Hebraica
- English is essentially...
- Evangelical Textual Crticicism
- H-Judaic
- Hagahot
- Hebrewbooks.org
- Hirhurim
- Historical Jewish Press
- Ivritype
- J-Virtual Library
- JTS Digital
- Jewish History Channel
- Languagehat
- Library Thing
- Mail-Jewish Archive
- Maven Yavin
- Mekorot
- Menachem Mendel
- Modest Proposals
- Netivat Soferet
- Notrikon
- On This and That
- Oy Vey Cartoons
- Paleo-Judaica
- Parsha Blog
- Philologos
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- Realia Judaica
- Seforim
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Thanks for the great blog!
ReplyDeleteSomebody told me that the KAJ Kehillah in Washington Heights practices a similar custom, though with envelopes,as opposed to boxes. I am sure that someone can confirm/debunk.