[ha-Safran]: mss of Orobio de Castro

2003-12-24 Thread Di Segni e Silvera
Dear Sirs, I received your address from Mauro Perani (Association of Italian Jewish Studies) I'm looking for manuscripts copies of the works of Isaac Orobio de Castro (XVII-XVIII c. spanish language) Many copies are listed in the book by Yosef Kaplan, many are in european libraries, but, as con

RE: [ha-Safran]: I Maccabees in Hebrew

2003-12-24 Thread Daniel Stuhlman
At 08:35 12/24/03, you wrote: >Dear Dr. Weinshank, > >Thank you. I realize the original Hebrew text no longer exists, but I >thought there might be some modern Hebrew translations of the extant Greek >text. I have a copy of Ha-sefarim ha-hitzonim (The hidden books i.e. Apocrypha) in Hebrew.

RE: [ha-Safran]: I Maccabees in Hebrew

2003-12-24 Thread Stanley Nachamie
I know that there are translations of I Maccabees from the Greek back into Hebrew (some stand-alone editions, some within a Hebrew translation of other books of the Apocrypha). I don't know, however, what editions are currently in print. The Tanakh canon may have been closed in 90-100 C.E., but th

RE: [ha-Safran]: I Maccabees in Hebrew

2003-12-24 Thread Shmuel Ben-Gad
Dear Dr. Weinshank, Thank you. I realize the original Hebrew text no longer exists, but I thought there might be some modern Hebrew translations of the extant Greek text. Chanuaka sameach. Shmuel Ben-Gad,

[ha-Safran]: New Book: Women in Israel: A State of Their Own

2003-12-24 Thread Yossi Galron
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[ha-Safran]: Ordering books from Israel

2003-12-24 Thread LAHAD5
Those of you who order books (not seforim, but literature like a set of Agnon) from Israel - Do you order from each publisher directly (Mossad Bialik, Dvir, etc) or do you have a contact person whom you deal with to order titles from the various publishers? Any suggestion about how to go about

RE: [ha-Safran]: Book fairs

2003-12-24 Thread Ann Abrams
I very much like Sayfair Books, www.sayfair.com . Ann Abrams, Librarian Temple Israel 477 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02215 617-566-3960 www.tisrael.org == HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Librarie

RE: [ha-Safran]: I Maccabees in Hebrew

2003-12-24 Thread Dr. Donald J. Weinshank
So far as I know, the text exists ONLY in Greek. The standard Rabbinic gloss "In the days of Mattathias, son of Yohanan, the heroic Hasmonean Kohen, and in the days of his sons, a cruel power arose..." (See Reuven Hammer: OHR HADASH, Rabbinical Assembly and United Synagogue, 2003, p. 160) is just