Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930

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Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) was a bookseller, bibliographer, publicist, polemicist, historian, memoirist, author, editor, and publisher. He produced some 70 volumes whose subjects include Jewish history and antiquities, parodies, medieval and modern Hebrew literature, Jewish religion, and booklore.

Deinard's antiquarian activities, which involved constant travel throughout Europe, the Orient, and America, gave him an acquaintance with scholars, private collectors, fellow booksellers, and libraries. He came into contact and conflict with numerous Hebrew writers and Jewish communal and political figures. His wide-ranging knowledge and experience are fully reflected in his own voluminous writings, mostly in Hebrew, produced over more than half a century. His scope of interests, the intensity of his sentiments, the acerbity of his remarks, all coupled with his bibliophily, render Deinard's works a source of contemporary Jewish historical and literary controversy, as seen in the margins of the Hebrew-reading world, before and after World War I.

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creatorOf Judah, ha-Levi, 12th cent. Mi kamokha : manuscript, 1858 and 1874. Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Tiqunim ve-sodot : manuscript, [17--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Piyutim : manuscript, [18--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Hebrew prayer book for Rosh ha-Shanah [ca. 1920?]. Smithsonian Institution. Libraries
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. ʹEts ḥayyim : manuscript, [17--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360. Kitāb Sharḥ Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá / taʼlīf al-Imām al-ʻĀlim ... ʻAbd Allāh ibn Hishām al-Naḥwī : manuscript, 1652. Houghton Library
creatorOf Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1274. Hādhihi al-Alfīyah fī al-naḥw / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Humām .. Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʼī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī : manuscript, undated. Houghton Library
creatorOf Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi, 1310?-1375?. Hidushim le-masekhat gittin : manuscript, [15--]. Houghton Library
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. Shaʹar ha-kavanot : manuscript, [18--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Piyutim : manuscript, [18--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. ʹEts ḥayyim : manuscript, [18--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Maḥzor le-yamim nora'im : manuscript, [1819?] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Perush le-Midrash rabah, Bamidbar : manuscript, [not before 1850] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Yefe nof, sefer tefilah ve-pirush al pi ḳabbalah : manuscript, [17--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. Shaʹar ha-gilgul : manuscript, 1758. Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Miscellaneous Hebrew manuscripts, undated. Houghton Library
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. Shaʹar ha-gilgul : manuscript, [17--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Papers, [ca. 1878-1925] New York State Historical Documents Inventory
creatorOf Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?. Kitāb Sharḥ Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ fī al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān wa-al-badīʻ / taʼlīf al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Sayyid al-udabāʼ wa-Tāj al-bulaghāʼ Saʻd al-Dīn Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-madʻū bi-Saʻd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī : manuscript, 1654. Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Sefer refu'ot : manuscript, 1833. Houghton Library
creatorOf Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. Shaʹar ruaḥ ha-ḳodesh : manuscript, [17--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim. 1846-1930. Ephraim Deinard Archives. Jewish Theological Seminary of America
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. Taʹame ha-mitsvot : manuscript, [17--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Huḳim sharshiyim kelalim me-ha-malakhah lerifut et ha-takhaluim : manuscript, [18--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 3-1620. Shaʹar ha-mitsvot : manuscript, 1776. Houghton Library
creatorOf Alyaunahus, Aaron Sason,. Seder birkat ha-mazon : manuscript, [19--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Deinard, Ephraim, 1846-1930,. Lequtot u-drashot : manuscript, [18--] Houghton Library
referencedIn Papers, 1880-1958. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
creatorOf Shapiro, Phinehas ben Abraham Abba, d. 1791. Sefer hevel hevelim : manuscript, [18--] Houghton Library
creatorOf General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Central Decimal Files. 1910 - 1963. 467.11 Deinard, Ephraim National Archives at College Park
creatorOf Weil, Jacob ben Judah, 15th cent. Teshuvot : manuscript, [16--] Houghton Library
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Bronx NY US
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Hebrew literature
Jewish learning and scholarship
Zionism
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Jewish authors
Bibliographers
Book collectors
Hebraists
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Birth 1846

Death 1930-06-24

German,

Russian,

English,

Yiddish,

Hebrew

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