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March 26, 2019

How One Collector Built History's Most Remarkable Jewish Library: David...

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"How One Collector Built History's Most Remarkable Jewish Library: David Oppenheim (1664-1736), Chief Rabbi of Prague" Joshua Teplitsky, History, Stony Brook University This is the story of...

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Adam Newton Presents "Jewish Studies as a Problem to Itself"

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In a posthumously published essay about the scholarly field he professed all his life, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "Philologists, when discussing their science, never get down to the root of...

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