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It is known that one who lacks books lacks knowledge, for a man’s knowledge is limited in its reach by the reach of his books; and there is no artist without tools. Many new books came…
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Simon Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1703–1712
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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Moses Belmonte, The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1655, 1667, 1679
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1718/19 and 1732/33
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Solomon Pinḥasoff
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1908