Haggados at Hebrewbooks

There is a wide assortment of Haggados that can be found at hebrewbooks.org (and some on Google Books). I am favoring R' Chaim Hirschenson's Ma HaEdus at the moment (unfortunately the link to R' Yosef Zechariah Stern's Hagada is incorrect). I'd give Mordechai Kaplan's a miss, he substiture Shfoch Chamoscho with a rather trite poem.

New Seforim at Hebrewbooks

Lots of great stuff in the April update, including: R' Zevin's Ishim V' Shittos, Shir's Nachlat Yehuda containing hasagot to Kunitz's Bar Yochai and his Erech Millin, R Chaim Tchernowitz (Rav Tzair) Siddur Tefillah Shel Toim U' Matim (on Mordechai Kaplan's Siddur) and his Kitzur Talmud (on this work, see his biographical sketch of Mendel Mocher Seforim (Abramowitz) in his Maseches Zichronos - will post later), also a Kitzur Talmud from Ephraim Pinner, some books from R Chaim Hirschenson, and some stuff by Avrohom Berliner, some of Reuvein Margolios's books, Sdeim Chemed's Pekuos HaSadeh which has some interesting letters, some interesting Kuntreisim from R Kook, some of Nosson Birnbaum's Kesavim (on him see the very insightful essay of Moshe Leiter in HaDarom), and lots more.

תשואת חן חן להם

Update: I mentioned Tchernowitz's Kitzur Talmud. The impetus for his work was likely the following conversation with Mendel Mocher Seforim:

R' Mordechai Banet's lists of Kefirah in Besamim Rosh

In Siman 5 of R' Mordechai Baneth's Parshas Mordechai (published post-humously) you have part of a Teshuva delineating many questionable Responsa in Besamim Rosh (see here). Interestingly, there is another list by Rabbi Baneth in והמה בכתובים, העתקות כתבי־יד מנחלת האחים לבית יעללעש pg. 20 (there are many important letters relating to the controversy there). My apologies for the lack of clarity of the scan. If someone has the book and can send me clearer scan, I would update it:







I'm not cerain why he used the term "Minus" for most of this list!! Interesting that it is somewhat different then the list in Parshas Mordechai.

A letter from R' Benet to R Tzvi Hirsch Berlin, the fsther of R Saul can be found here. - literary supplement No. 6 53-55 No. 9 140-141.





On the publisher of this letter, Solomon Rosenthal - See YY Greenwald - Toldot Mishpachat Rosenthal (available at Hebrewbooks.org). [Update: I see now that this is the very same letter that appears in Parshas Mordechai - of course without credit to Orient.]

[In the same newspaper, I noticed a review of ShuT Chasam Sofer See Issue 15 pg. 247 of the PDF, and an article by Raphael Kirscheim on "Juden und Pesach" pg. 185 (202) of PDF.]

In earlier posts, I expressed some unhappiness with the agenda driven scholarship of R Dovid Kamenetsky, it seems I am not alone in this.

Some more photoshopping - R' Falk's influence seems to be on the rise

I see that many issues of Kathedra, a journal devoted to the history of Eretz Yisroel can be found online. I especially recommend Michael Silber's article on R' Akiva Yosef Schlesinger which can be found here. (Dr. Silber is currently working on a full-length biography of RAYS - see here)

And just in time for Pesach, the JSIJ has added an extensive article "ON THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE AND MEANING OF MAH NISHTANNAH AND THE HISTORY OF ITS
REINTERPRETATION"

I found one:

R' Jesaja Berlin, Eine Biographic Skizze