Manuscript collection, [ca. 1481]-1964.

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Manuscript collection, [ca. 1481]-1964.

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Primarily consists of rabbinical works including legal rulings; sermons; novellae; notes; responsa; and ethical, mystical, and Hasidic works; and other material from Holland, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Yemen, Tunisia, the United States, and elsewhere. Also includes manuscript prayer books, Torah scrolls, Scrolls of Esther, haftaroth, marriage contracts, amulets, and Samaritan works from Spain, Italy, France, Yemen, and elsewhere; record books of communities and institutions including Yeshivath Torath Hayyim, Odessa, 1895, Havurath Miksa (Bible study group), Kalvarija, Lithuania, 1791-1799, communities in Strasnitz and Lissa, and Czarist military court in Warsaw, 1864-1865; and miscellaneous other literary and scientific works, letters, certificates, music, and other materials. Among individuals whose works, and copies of whose works, are included are Akiva Eger, Hayyim Vital, Shem Tov ben Joseph Falaquera, Elisha Gallico, Moses Cordovero, Joseph Taitazak, Asher ben Jehiel, Meir Poppers, Jacob Zemah, Moses Reicherson, Jacob Sikili, Isaac Elhanan Spektor, and others.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8338461

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Yeshiva University. Special Collections. Rare Books and Manuscripts.

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Collecting area: Manuscripts in the fields of Bible, Rabbinics, and Jewish history. Will also accept Jewish Americana and materials reflecting Jewish tradition in all Judaic languages. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155527036 ...

Sikili, Jacob ben Hananel, 13th/14th cent.

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Asher ben Jehiel, approximately 1250-1327

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Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620

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The text is sometimes mistakenly ascribed to Isaac Luria. From the description of Shaʹar ha-mitsvot : manuscript, 1776. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612831354 ...

Gallico, Elisha ben Gabriel, fl. 1578-1587.

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Eger, Akiva ben Moses Guens, 1761-1837

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Spektor, Isaac Elhanan, 1817-1896

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Rabbi. From the description of Ordination papers, 1883-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155247589 From the description of Letters, [ca. 1896]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122520804 ...

Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph, approximately 1225-approximately 1295

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Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim, 17th cent.

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Poppers, Meʼir ben Joseph Loeb ha-Kohen, d. 1662.

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Reicherson, Moses, 1827-1903

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Taitaẓak, Joseph, active 16th century

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Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570

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