From a Jewish Press interview with R. Nosson Scherman: [The Jewish Press:] Rabbi Dr. Marcus Lehman’s books [first published in Germany in the 19th century] are saturated with Jewish themes and values. Some of ArtScroll’s books, on the other hand, sometimes seem almost accidentally Jewish. The characters, names and some other details might be Jewish, …
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Naming G-d In Der Israelit
Mississippi Fred MacDowell recently posted about a fascinating episode recorded in the pages of R. Marcus (Meyer) Lehmann’s newspaper Der Israelit. This is as good an occasion as any to note a prominent appearance of the newspaper and its celebrated author in the Halachic literature; an entire responsum of the great Rav Haim Ozer Grodzinski’s …