Dear Librarians,
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book by the JTS and Bar-Ilan University Press: Responsa Fragments of the Ottoman Empire Sages from the Cairo Genizah in the Elkan Nathan Adler Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. by Shmuel Glick with Yaakov Schwartz, Avraham Levin, Ariel Grossman Vols. 1-2 in Hebrew, hard cover. Vol. 1 – 500 pp. ISBN: 978-965-456-066-5 Vol. 2 – 272 pp. including detailed Table of Contents and Introduction in English ISBN: 978-965-456-067-2 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Bar-Ilan University Press, New York – Jerusalem, Ramat-Gan 2016-5776 A Full Color Facsimile Edition Catalogue price (2 vols.): $180 This book includes descriptions of fifty fragments of rabbinic responsa from the Ottoman Empire sages (16th-19th) found in the Elkan Nathan Adler Cairo Genizah Collection at the JTS Library. The responsa reveal new matters, which had not been dealt with in the past either in halakha, or in Talmudic exegesis. These responsa offer fertile ground for research in all manner of disciplines, from the interpretation of Jewish Law to the wider social, cultural and legal history of the Jewish Communities of the Mediterranean and Near East. The book can be ordered by Phone: ++972-2-5631288, by Fax: ++972-2-5636857 by e-mail: jtspr...@schocken-jts.org.il and through the web site: http://www.schocken-jts.org.il/english/bookstore/ Regards, Baruch Yonin, tel.: 0544-344506 The Schocken Institute-JTS Press Jerusalem
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