Musings of a Jewish Bookseller

 Mention of a Jewish Wedding or prayers at a synagogue can conjure many different memories, though 2 different booklets I came across this w...

 When one thinks of the throngs of Jewish immigrants arriving in the United States in the early 1900s, images of the Statue of Liberty and p...

 Censorship in Hebrew Books in the 19th century was rather commonplace, with the offending reasons causing a text to be removed varying grea...

 Within an archive of a noted American Rabbi I recently acquired, one letter I found stood out to me, shedding light on life under the Nazis...

 Tucked in an early American Responsa Sefer I acquired recently, was a one page printed document from 1925 that tells a fascinating tale. Wh...

 "My father, a great Rabbi" Great European Rabbis and their American children: The author of Imre Shalom (St Louis, 1943), Rabbi M...

 On the free-end of a Vilna 1937 edition of the Tanya, I found a Hebrew inscription by Yitzchak Dovid Wein, an emissary of the former Lubavi...

 Female Pre-subscribers to a Hasidic Work? 1933 Lev Aryeh In 1933, the Novominsker Rebbe published the first edition of his Lev Aryeh, 11 ye...

A clear sign the spring season has arrived, is when customers start asking me to set aside books until their wives are in the bungalows, ...

Guest Post by Zalman Alpert, Judaica Reference Librarian at the Gottesman Library of Yeshiva University from 1982–2014 As I wrote in an ...