Did you ever wonder how Buxtorf* vocalized his* name? Wonder no longer. In Latin letters, " Boqesedorph ." From Institutio Epistol...

This is just a short reminder that people have to be mindful not only to search for terms using the correct spelling, but also to become awa...

The prior "when the rabbis became doctors" posts concerned the "Rabbi Doctor" phenomenon which arose in the 19th century...

Here's a polyglot version of the Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis from 1759 (Prague). The prayers are in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Here ...

Here's the title page of a Hebrew and Yiddish guide to palm-reading from 1776.* You can read or download it here . * The actua...

Here's an interesting review of the Jerusalem Bible (edited by Prof. Moshe David/ Umberto Cassuto ) published in משמרת חומותנו in 1956....

Here's a description of the Shemoneh Esrei/ Amidah prayer from 1706. This is from Discourses of the Ecclesias...

Here is an interesting caustic comment concerning yeshivas in R. Hirsch Fassel's Choreb be-zayon , his critical "Letters of a Jewis...

J.L. Wittkower published a book called Agudath Perachim " Blüthenstrauch ," an "Anthology of German and Hebrew Poems of Mind...

Here is a beautiful new Hebrew blog called Notrikon . The blogger is affiliated with the Kedem auction house , where the very interesting i...

The Jewish press arose more or less in the 1830s ( link ). What the Jewish Encylopedia calls "the first successful Orthodox paper was ...

In Julius Furst's Der Orient ( Literaturblatt des Orients No. 7, February 15, 1840) pg. 108 we find the following short note by Shada...

Here's the abstract: did Rabbi Moshe ben Shimon Margolis (circa 1710-1780) author of the Pne Moshe/ Ma'areh ha-Panim commentary on ...

Here's an interesting illustration from a 1695 book on the biblical prohibitions of various kinds of shaving called ' Comam Hebraeor...

One the things which really annoyed Shadal was German. He didn't like it, he claimed that he couldn't read the Blackletter type well...

Indefatigable medieval traveler Benjamin of Tudela recently posted about "Napoleon and Tisha Be'av Myth," or the story that N...

Rabbi M. Torczyner has a post about why he prefers to write "God" as "Gd" ( link ). I don't agree with him, but I ce...

In the Artscroll edition of the Kinnos ( The Complete Tisha B'Av Service ) there is a kinnah for the Holocaust by Rabbi Shlomo Halberst...

Here's a page of the 1553 Sabbioneta edition of Kiddushin, which included cantillation symbols for reading the Mishnah. The editor ...