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Benjamin Richler

Librarian, cataloguer of MSS at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem (Director of the Institute since 1997). Retired.

 

e-mail: benjaminr@savion.huji.ac.il

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I frammenti della Ghenizą italiana; i frammenti di manoscritti ebraici dell’Archivio di Stato di Modena.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

- Hebrew manuscripts, a treasured legacy (Cleveland-Jerusalem 1990).

- Guide to Hebrew Manuscript Collections (Jerusalem, Israel Academy of Sciences, 1994). Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries  Bibliography Award for 1995. New revised and enlarged edition in press.

Edited:

- The Hebrew Manuscripts in the Valmadonna Trust Library (London 1998).

- Hebrew manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma (Jerusalem 2001).

- Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library (Vatican City, 2008). Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Bibliography Award for 2008.

 

Articles

- [A survey, additions and notes to] J.D. Pearson, "Oriental Mss. in Europe and North America" (1971), in REJ  132 (1973) 153-165.

- [On the Yemenite Midrash ha-Biur and its author] (Hebrew) in Alei Sefer 2 (1976), 91-96.

- A Hebrew paraphrase of the Hippocratic Oath (from a fifth-century manuscript), in Medical History 22,4 (1978) 438-445 (with S. Kottek).

- [Identifying the translator of Al-Batalyusi’s Sefer ha-Agulot ha-Ra’ayoniyot] (Hebrew)  in Kiryat Sefer 53 (1978) 577.

- [New inscriptions from the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat] (Hebrew) in Alei Sefer 5 (1978), 182-185.

- [On the manuscripts of Sefer ha-Yirah attributed to Jonah Gerondi], (Hebrew)  in Alei Sefer 8 (1980), 51-59.

- Manuscripts of Avicenna's Kanon in Hebrew translation; a revised and up-to-date list, in Koroth 8, 3/4 (1982) 145-168.

- Manuscripts of Moses ben Nahman's "Torat ha-Adam, in Koroth 8,7-8 (1983) 265-267.

- Resources for the history of medicine at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, in Koroth 8,9-10 (1984) 407-413.

- Manuscripts of Moses ben Maimon's "Pirke Moshe" in Hebrew translation, in Koroth 9,3-4 (1986) 345-356.

- [Hebrew manuscripts that were split up] (Hebrew) Assufot 1 (1987) 105-158.

- Hebrew manuscript collections in Jewish Book Annual 46 (1988) 62-77.

- [A new letter from Hillel of Verona to Isaac the physician] (Hebrew) in Kiryat Sefer 62 (1989) 450-452.

- Medical treatises by Moses b. Isaac Ibn Waqar in: Koroth 9,9-10 (1989) 700-707.

- [New medical works by Joseph Solomon Delmedigo of Candia] (Hebrew) in Kiryat Sefer 63 (1990), 297-298.

- [Did Moses ibn Waqar precede Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo?] (Hebrew) in Kiryat Sefer 63 (1990) 299.

- [Unknown translation of Jonah ibn Janah’s Sefer Shorashim] (Hebrew) in Kiryat Sefer 63 (1990) 993-995; 1327-1328.

- [Supplements to Samuel b. Nissim Masnut’s Midrash on Genesis] (Hebrew) in Kiryat Sefer 63 (1990) 1323-1326.

- The contribution of the Italian parchment fragments to the history of medieval rabbinic literature and booklore in: Manoscritti, frammenti e libri ebraici (1991) 41-50.

- The scribe Moses ben Jacob Ibn Zabara of Spain; a Moroccan saint? in Jewish Art 18 (1992) 141-147.

- Rabbeinu Tam's "lost" commentary on Job, in: The Frank Talmage Memorial Volume, I  (1993), 191-202.

- I frammenti di manoscritti ebraici negli archivi e nelle biblioteche d'Europa e d'Italia in Vita e cultura ebraica (1993) 49-63.

- [Unknown writings of Leone Modena] (Hebrew) in Assufot 6 (1993) 157-172.

- Microfilming the Baron Guenzburg collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the Russian State Library in Moscow, in Judaica Librarianship  8,1-2 (1993-1994) 142-144.

- Resources for the study of Tosafist literature at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, in Rashi et la culture juive (1997) 383-392.

- [On the education of young Jewish women in Renaissance Italy] (Hebrew) in Kiryat Sefer  68 (Supplement) 1998, 275-278.

- Isaac Abravanel's "lost" commentary on Deuteronomy, Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century I (1999) 199-204.

- Frammenti di testi sconosciuti nella “Genizah italiana” in La “Genizah italiana” (1999) 215-226 (translated from the original Hebrew in The Italian Genizah (1998).

- On editing the catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in Parma, in Materia Giudaica 7,2 (2002) 217-221.

- Some observations on Weisz's catalogue of the Kaufmann Collection, in David Kaufmann Memorial Volume (2002) 17-26.

- The dispersion of medieval Hebrew manuscripts and its significance for understanding the phenomenon of Hebrew membra disiecta, in "Fragmenta ne pereant" (2002) 75-81.

- Microfilming Hebrew manuscripts in Eastern Europe in Slavic & East European Information Resources 4,2-3 (2003) 59-68.

- [The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts] (Hebrew) Beit ha- Vaad (2003), 85-94.

- The manuscripts in the lost Library of the Tlomackie St. Synagogue in Warsaw in Studia Rosenthaliana, 38-39 (2006) 360-383.

- Sefer ha-Musar, or Hamas ha-Zeman by ibn Ephraim of Modena in Il Mio Cuore č a Orient, studi ... dedicati a Maria Luisa Mayer Modena (Milano 2008), pp. 753-758.

- [List of manuscripts of Tosafot] (in Hebrew) in Israel Ta-Shema Memorial Volume (in press).

- [The establishment of a beit midrash library in 1693], in Festschrift for Prof. Menahem Schmelzer (in preparation).

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