Contents: Masekhet Nazir (mi-daf 30 ṿa-elekh) -- Masekhet Soṭah. Written in France in author's own handwriting. 50 lines to a page. Ashkenazic script.
Contents: Masekhet Ḳidushin -- Masekhet Giṭin -- Masekhet Nazir. Written in France in author's own handwriting. Ashkenazic script. 45 lines to a page.
Contents: Ketubbot (98B-) -- Nedarim -- Bava meẓia (95A-) -- Ḳovets ʻal yad: on Tractate Berakhot and Mishnah Zeraʻim -- Shabbat. Written in France in the author's own handwriting; no date given.... Show moreContents: Ketubbot (98B-) -- Nedarim -- Bava meẓia (95A-) -- Ḳovets ʻal yad: on Tractate Berakhot and Mishnah Zeraʻim -- Shabbat. Written in France in the author's own handwriting; no date given. Fifty lines to a page; Ashkenazic script. Show less
Unpublished; similar in concept to the Yalkut Shimoni. Probably compiled in North Africa. There are occasional explanations to the Talmudic passages quoted. Compiler and title of work unknown. Loos... Show moreUnpublished; similar in concept to the Yalkut Shimoni. Probably compiled in North Africa. There are occasional explanations to the Talmudic passages quoted. Compiler and title of work unknown. Loose notes at end of volume refer to the work as the Ramsgate Yalkut, and give a summary of an article by Samuel David Luzzatto about it. 33 lines; written in brown ink in Spanish semi-cursive script on paper with hand/star spread fingers of watermarks of Genoese type; marginal notes, some in a modern hand, written in large characters; modern foliation in pencil; catchwords; first few fols. missing; fols. 1, 93, 94, 164 repaired with some text loss; fols. 182-255 tissued; erosion caused by ink; paper and script darkened; half morocco. Montefiore no. 9. Previous owners of the original manuscript: Joseph ben Zikri, Samuel David Luzzatto, Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 92). Show less
Unpublished collection of midrashim on the Pentateuch. The present manuscript was copied in Byzantium or in southern Italy in the 15th century and is one of only two extant manuscripts of the Yalḳu... Show moreUnpublished collection of midrashim on the Pentateuch. The present manuscript was copied in Byzantium or in southern Italy in the 15th century and is one of only two extant manuscripts of the Yalḳuṭ Talmud Torah on Genesis. The other known manuscript is in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The author, whose name suggests that he was of Sicilian descent, lived in Spain until setting out for the Land of Israel. He settled in Damascus instead, where he wrote this compilation. Written in Sephardic-Oriental script in brown ink; half calf over boards. First leaf lacking. Accompanied by correspondence between Rabbi Dr. Isaac Herzog and David Sassoon. Sassoon no. 783. Former owners: Simeon ben Moses ha-Levi; Saleh ben Aaron; Moses ben Simeon ha-Levi; David Solomon Sassoon. Show less
Interview with Medad, a longtime Beitar (the Revisionist-Zionist Youth Movement) activist who was involved in the Soviet Jewry movement in the United States and in England, where he functioned for ... Show moreInterview with Medad, a longtime Beitar (the Revisionist-Zionist Youth Movement) activist who was involved in the Soviet Jewry movement in the United States and in England, where he functioned for several years as an emissary of Beitar to the Jewish community in Britain. Medad emigrated to Israel in 1970, and most recently served as the Information Resources Director of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Recorded in Jerusalem, Israel. Show less
