Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Sheelot u-Teshuvot Besamim Rosh

On March 10, 2008 I posted, on the shortlived JTS library blog Mekorot, what was intended to be the first in a series of posts on the topic of "Rabbinic Forgeries". The Mekorot blog was later discontinued and the series was never completed. The new JTS library blog, The Takeaway, has a different format and I do not intend to continue the series. I do want to present a link to the original Mekorot blog post in case any one is interested in seeing it. Here it is: http://jtslibrary.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/rabbinic-forgeries-part-1/.

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  1. the YU museam book "printing the talmud from bomberg to shottenstein" mentions multiple forgeries and purim torah masechtot such as masechetpurim and masechet prohibision. also an infamous forgery of yerushalmi masekhtot . images of the forgeries and the associated historicla background can be found on the Yu museum website along with nearly all of the text and images in the exhibit book. see http://www.printingthetalmud.org/essays.html

    regarding forgeries see the following entries (i have copied the entry number, and relevant bibliographic information provided on the forgery. )

    59. Forged Jerusalem Talmud Seder Kodashim
    Author: Solomon Judah Algazi-Friedlaender
    Hungary, 1907
    Printed by Jacob Widder
    MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

    65. Massekhet Purim
    Author: Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
    Venice, 1552
    Printed by Daniel ben Cornelius Adelkind
    PRIVATE COLLECTION

    66. Massekhet Purim
    Author: Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
    Amsterdam, 1752
    THE BRAGINSKY COLLECTION

    67. Massekhet Prohibishon
    Author: Gerson Kiss
    Brooklyn, 1929
    MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

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