Isaac Rabinowitz papers, [ca. 1965-1988]
Collection Number: 14-30-3937

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Isaac Rabinowitz papers, [ca. 1965-1988]

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

14-30-3937

Abstract:

Correspondence and subject files relating to his career and to the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell.

Creator:

Rabinowitz, Isaac, 1909-

Quanitities:

11 cubic feet.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Near Eastern Studies. Isaac Rabinowitz joined the Cornell faculty in 1957 and retired as Professor of Biblical and Hebrew Studies in 1975. He served as chairman of the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures, now the Department of Near Eastern Studies, when it was re-established in 1966. Among his major scholarly contributions was the first translation and critical evaluation in modern language of a 15th century Hebrew treatise on the art of Classical rhetoric and its use in interpreting the Hebrew Bible. He was born in Brooklyn, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1932. He directed B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations at the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn College and served as executive director of the East New York Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations in Brooklyn from 1946 to 1955. He came to Cornell from Wayne State University in Detroit where he directed the Program of Hebrew Studies. Isaac Rabinowtiz died on September 11, 1988.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence and subject files relating to his career and to the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Isaac Rabinowitz papers, #14-30-3937. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

See also the Isaac Rabinowitz collected bound manuscripts, #4661.

Access Restrictions:

Access to parts of the collection designated by the donor restricted to written permission of the donor. Cornell will forward contact information and requests to the donor.

Restrictions on Use:

Donor retains copyright during his lifetime.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Cornell University. Department of Near Eastern Studies

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Biographical Information
Box 1	Folder 1	Appointment Forms and Correspondence with Cornell University	1968-1978
Box 1	Folder 2	Background, etc.	1944-1946
Box 1	Folder 3	Copy of Curriculum Vitae, List of Publications
Box 1	Folder 4	Cornell Research Account	1980-1988
Box 1	Folder 5	Curriculum Vitae--Document #1. Photographs
		Scope and Contents Photographs
Box 1	Folder 6	Letters of Recommendation. Curriculum Vitae. Records	1942-1955
Box 1	Folder 7	Tax Information	1976-1978
Box 1	Folder 8	TIAA/CREF	1975
		Scope and Contents Matierial and correspondence about reitirement. TIAA stands for Teacher Insurance and Annuity Association. CREF stands for College Retirement Equities Fund.
Box 1	Folder 9	Transcript at Yale
		Scope and Contents Also contains some newspaper clippings and correspondence with Yale
		Series II. Correspondence
		Personal correspondence(arranged by surname)
Box 1	Folder 10	Alvin H. Bernstein, Acting Chairman	1980-1983
Box 1	Folder 11	David Birnbach	1981
Box 1	Folder 12	Chana Bloch/Florie Faerstein
		Scope and Contents Also contains correspondence with N.A.Berkoff
Box 1	Folder 13	Chana Faerstein Bloch
Box 1	Folder 14	Ross Brann
Box 1	Folder 15	Stuart M. Brown
Box 1	Folder 16	J. Brussel-N.Y.-Books	1969
Box 1	Folder 17	T.A.Burkill
Box 1	Folder 18	Harry Caplan
Box 1	Folder 19	Dale R. Corson
Box 1	Folder 20	Mrs. Dorothy Bungert's letters re: the visions of her daughter
Box 1	Folder 21	Robert Eisenman	1972-1974
Box 1	Folder 22	Victor Eppstein	1959-1970
Box 1	Folder 23	Ronald and Deborah Freedman	1982
Box 1	Folder 24	Yehoshua Gitay
Box 1	Folder 25	David Halperin (Advisee)
Box 1	Folder 26	Robert Hoberman	1976
Box 1	Folder 27	William Horowitz
Box 1	Folder 28	Alfred Ivry
Box 1	Folder 29	Noah Jacobs	1976-1977
Box 1	Folder 30	Mr. John T. Johnson, Dr. Mildred S. Johnson-Correspondence on pronunciation of Hebrew in connection with Mrs. Johnson's work as a teacher of Kabbalah	1970-1973
Box 1	Folder 31	Prof. Alfred E. Kahn, Dean of Arts and Sciences	1969-1973
		Scope and Contents Prof. Alfred E. Kahn, Dean of Arts and Sciences
Box 1	Folder 32	Acting Chairman Prof. Michael Kammen	1970-1971
		Scope and Contents Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Cornell University
Box 1	Folder 33	Edward Kiev
Box 1	Folder 34	Abraham D. Krikorian
Box 1	Folder 35	Jon Lavine
Box 1	Folder 36	Samuel Lemberg and Maurice Hexter
Box 2	Folder 1	Julius Leventhal	1959-1986
Box 2	Folder 2	Dean Prof. Harry Levin (Cornell University)	1975-1976
		Scope and Contents Cornell University
Box 2	Folder 3	Norman Malcolm	1961-1970
		Scope and Contents Also contains two offprints of articles by Norman Malcolm
Box 2	Folder 4	Howard Marblestone	1979-1984
Box 2	Folder 5	Dan Moore	1976
Box 2	Folder 6	James J. Murphy: Rhetoric	1983-1984
Box 2	Folder 7	Prof. Benzion Netanyahu	1971-1976
Box 2	Folder 8	Madeline Noveck	1966-1981
		Scope and Contents Includes exhibition catalogs (co-)authored by Madeline Noveck.
Box 2	Folder 9	Eugene G. O'Neill, Jr	1938- 1946
Box 2	Folder 10	Prof. David Owen, Chairman	1975-1980
Box 2	Folder 11	Prof. David Powers	1985-1986
Box 2	Folder 12	Jack Sasson	1977-1985
Box 2	Folder 13	Miriam Scheraga	1967-1986
Box 2	Folder 14	Michael Schub	1977-1978
		Scope and Contents Also contains offprints by Michael Schub
Box 2	Folder 15	Edgar E. Siskin	1964-1988
Box 2	Folder 16	Abram Spiro	1956-1964
Box 2	Folder 17	F. C. Steward	1969-1975
Box 2	Folder 18	Lewis R. Sutin	1985-1988
Box 2	Folder 19	Lewis R. Sutin	1983-1986
Box 2	Folder 20	John Tepfer	1956-1984
Box 2	Folder 21	Luitpold Wallach	1962-1985
Box 2	Folder 22	Hayden V. White	1957-1983
Box 2	Folder 23	Paul Winter	1966-1969
Box 2	Folder 24	Donald Yates	1976-1980
Box 2	Folder 25	Anthony D. York	1968-1977
Box 2	Folder 26	Anthony D. York-Admission to Candidacy Exam [passed] Status of Advancement to Degree	August 11-12, 1971
Box 2	Folder 27	Georg K. Zucker-Sephardic Studies	1984-1987
Box 2	Folder 28	Personal Letters	1938-1955
Box 2	Folder 29	Personal Correspondence	1956-1961
		Scope and Contents Mostly from 1957 re Cornell appointment
Box 2	Folder 30	Personal	1957-1985
		Scope and Contents Chiefly from late 1950s-early 1960s
Box 3	Folder 1	Personal	1962-1985
Box 3	Folder 2	Personal	1964-1986
Box 3	Folder 3	Scholars' Correspondence-General-re offprints, etc	1972-1988
Box 3	Folder 4	Miscellaneous--Letters	1978-
Box 3	Folder 5	Letters	1985-1988
		Cornell University correspondence and material
Box 3	Folder 6	Bib. Literature Book, Funding, etc.	1983-1984
Box 3	Folder 7	Proposed Department Procedures
Box 3	Folder 8	Graduate Field of Semitic Studies: Specific Requirements
Box 3	Folder 9	Semitics: Graduate Field	1965
Box 3	Folder 10	Graduate Program-Semitics, Copy for detailed requirements + potential brochure	1969-1970
Box 3	Folder 11	Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures	1963-1967
		Scope and Contents Contains proposal for the establishment of the department, appointment letter for the chair
Box 3	Folder 12	Department of Semitics	1972-1977
		Scope and Contents Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures
Box 3	Folder 13	Candidacies in Semitics	1974
Box 3	Folder 14	Department meetings
		Scope and Contents (Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures)
Box 3	Folder 15	Department Business	1983-1987
Box 3	Folder 16	Department Correspondence
Box 3	Folder 17	Miscellaneous-Department (Isaac Rabinowitz)
Box 3	Folder 18	Correspondence re Cornell Professorship	1956-1957
Box 3	Folder 19	Correspondence re Cornell Appointment as Professor of Biblical and Hebrew Studies	1957-1960
Box 3	Folder 20	Cornell University Library	1980
Box 3	Folder 21	Cornell University Library	1979-1987
Box 3	Folder 22	Cornell University Library	1985-1988
Box 3	Folder 23	Faculty Forum: "Memoranda for a Preface to the Scriptures"	June, 1967
Box 3	Folder 24	Archaeology Department	1977-1982
Box 3	Folder 25	Society for the Humanities
Box 3	Folder 26	Hull Memorial Fund
Box 3	Folder 27	Cornell University Press	1981
		Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding "Book of the Honeycomb's Flow"
Box 3	Folder 28	Printing of Nofet Sufim: Samples,etc. Glossary	1971
		Scope and Contents Correspondence about "Book of the Honeycomb's Flow" with Cornell University Press
Box 3	Folder 29	Arts and Sciences: Faculty
		Scope and Contents Phi Beta Kappa Society; Ad hoc committee on faculty tenure
Box 3	Folder 30	Phi Beta Kappa	1966-1975
Box 3	Folder 31	Subcommittee on Instruction in Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences	1958
		Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with Dean of Arts and Sciences Francis E. Mineka and Chairman Stuart M. Brown Jr
Box 3	Folder 32	Committee on Chair in Christian Thought	1959-1965
Box 3	Folder 33	Sabbatic Term: Jerusalem (Israel)	1965
Box 3	Folder 34	Sabbatic Leave	1971-1972
Box 3	Folder 35	Jewish Studies: Campaign, etc.	1988
Box 3	Folder 36	Graduate School	1963
		Scope and Contents Election to the General Committee of the Graduate School in Cornell University
Box 3	Folder 37	Contracts with University	1975-1977
		Scope and Contents About Professor Rabinowitz's retirement
Box 3	Folder 38	Jehovah's Witnesses' Use of Cornell's Name to "Prove" Superior Accuracy of Their Bible Translation
Box 3	Folder 39	Promotion Procedures; chair for Department of Semitics	1968-1971
Box 3	Folder 40	Literary Format Pamphlet	1961
Box 4	Folder 1	University Faculty	1977-1986
		Scope and Contents Memorial Statements Cornell University Faculty
Box 4	Folder 2	Candidates	1965-1971
		Correspondence with Students
Box 4	Folder 3	Talmudic Aramaic	1969
Box 4	Folder 4	Charles Branch	1974
Box 4	Folder 5	Malti, Fedwa (Advisee-Major); Student File	1974
Box 4	Folder 6	Zvia Greenspan	1966
		Scope and Contents Copies of Targum on Ezek. 1:1
Box 4	Folder 7	Rev. Richard T. Loring-Candidate Th. D.-General Theological Seminary/I.R.-Examiner	May 3, 1968
Box 4	Folder 8	Danial Tooker-Advisee	1973-1974
Box 4	Folder 9	Lawrence H. Schwartz, Advisee	1972
Box 4	Folder 10	Applications: Dannhauser, Shoshana Zaltzman (Semitic Studies)	1969-1973
Box 4	Folder 11	Letters re Students	1958-1972
Box 4	Folder 12	Letters-Students	1972-1983
		Correspondence with Other Institutions
Box 4	Folder 13	American Oriental Society, 187th Meeting	April, 26-27, 1977
Box 4	Folder 14	Correspondence re COI Memos/OSS	1942-1944
		Scope and Contents (Office of Strategic Services, Washington, D.C.)
Box 4	Folder 15	Correspondence re Completed Papers	1971
Box 4	Folder 16	Correspondence re "Demetrius" Paper	1977
Box 4	Folder 17	Department of Modern Language, University of Northern Iowa. Scholarly Meetings and Conferences-Opportunities for Graduate Students	1977
Box 4	Folder 18	East New York	1957-1961
Box 4	Folder 19	East New York	1962-1970
Box 4	Folder 20	East New York Materials	1953
Box 4	Folder 21	Fellowship	1977
Box 4	Folder 22	Guggenheim	1961-1970
		Scope and Contents John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Box 4	Folder 23	Guggenheim	1961-1962
Box 4	Folder 24	Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion	1985
Box 4	Folder 25	Hillel
		Scope and Contents B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation: Hillel publications
Box 4	Folder 26	Hillel	1959-1968
Box 4	Folder 27	Indiana University	October 25, 1956
Box 4	Folder 28	In Jewish Bookland	1959-1971
Box 4	Folder 29	Intercollege Committee on Archaeology	1964-1972
Box 4	Folder 30	MAARAV	1977-1978
		Scope and Contents (subtitle: A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures)
Box 4	Folder 31	National Endowment for Humanities-Edgar Rosenberg	1971
Box 4	Folder 32	National Endowment for the Humanities	1971-1972
Box 4	Folder 33	National Endowment for the Humanities: Application	1978-1984
Box 5	Folder 1	National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship: Report, Application, etc.	1971-1972
Box 5	Folder 2	Evaluations: National Endowment for the Humanities	1971-1975
Box 5	Folder 3	National Endowment for the Humanities Report	1975
Box 5	Folder 4	National Endowment for the Humanities General Correspondence	1974-1979
Box 5	Folder 5	National Foundation for Jewish Culture	1961-1975
Box 5	Folder 6	National Foundation for Jewish Culture Advisory Council	1967-1968
Box 5	Folder 7	New Literary History	1972
		Scope and Contents (subtitle: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation)
Box 5	Folder 8	Prentice Hall, Inc.	1973
Box 5	Folder 9	Letters to Prospective Publishers	1985-1988
Box 5	Folder 10	Sardis-Correspondence
		Scope and Contents Sardis Expedition, Harvard University
Box 5	Folder 11	Correspondence-Scholarship	1956-1969
Box 5	Folder 12	Social Sciences and Humanities (Research Council of Canada)	1956-1969
		Scope and Contents Request for Review of Research Grant Proposal on "Hebrew Humanism in Italy"
		Access restricted
Box 5	Folder 13	Society of Biblical Literature	1975
Box 5	Folder 14	Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis	1958
		Scope and Contents Meeting Schedule and Records
Box 5	Folder 15	Correspondence re Wayne University	1955
Box 5	Folder 16	YMHA and Federation Papers	1955-1962
		Scope and Contents East New York Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association; Y Review (publication of the East New York Y.M. and Y. W. H. A.)
Box 5	Folder 17	Near East, Bibliography Correspondence with Ettinghausen	1963-1964
Box 5	Folder 18	Miscellany	1963-1964
		Miscellany
Box 5	Folder 19	Business/Current/Galveston	1969-1971
Box 5	Folder 20	Business Correspondence	1958-1966
Box 5	Folder 21	Sundry Materials	1975-1985
Box 5	Folder 22	Current/In Process/Scholarly and Personal	1972-1979
		Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with Devon Smith, R.J.Kaufmann, Harry Levin, Matin W. Sampson, and others
Box 5	Folder 23	Towards a Valid Theory of Biblical Hebrew Literature-Reprint Details Correspondence	1967-1969
Box 5	Folder 24	Replies to Queries Addressed to Cornell and Referred	1959-1977
Box 5	Folder 25	Letter Box 1, from A to H	1933-1936
Box 5	Folder 26	Letter Box 1, from H to N	1935-1937
Box 5	Folder 27	Letter Box 1, from H to N	1935-1937
Box 5	Folder 28	Letter Box 2, from A to C	1931-1938
Box 5	Folder 29	Letter Box 2, from D to H	1931-1938
Box 5	Folder 30	Letter Box 2, from I to O	1934-1938
Box 5	Folder 31	Letter Box 2, from P to Z	1935-1938
Box 5	Folder 32	Copies of Isaac Rabinowitz's correspondence from his son, 1	1944
Box 5	Folder 33	Copies of Isaac Rabinowitz's correspondence from his son, 2	1942-1946
		Series III. Research, Papers, Articles and Books Arranged by Subject
		Dead Sea Scrolls
Box 5	Folder 34	Dead Sea Scroll Paper by Isaac Rabinowitz
		Scope and Contents Includes email correspondence with Scott B. Noegel and some offprints
Box 5	Folder 35	Dead Sea Scrolls: Preparation Material for a Book Collection for Prof. Rabinowitz's Articles, and an Introductory Essay
Box 5	Folder 36	Various offprints on Dead Sea Scrolls
Box 6	Folder 1	Internal Evidence for the Sequence and Dating of Dead Sea Scrolls	1951-1954
		Ben Sira
Box 6	Folder 2	Prologue to Ben Sira
Box 6	Folder 3	"The Qumran Hebrew Original of Ben Sira's Concluding Acrostic on Wisdom" (typescript)	1970
Box 6	Folder 4	"The Qumran Hebrew Original of Ben Sira's Concluding Acrostic on Wisdom"-Hebrew Union College Annual	1971
Box 6	Folder 5	Ben Sira	1970-1971
		Scope and Contents Includes offprints and notes
		Sardis Synagogue
Box 6	Folder 6	"An Interim Bibliography of Sardis," by G. Haufmann, R.S. Thomas, and J.S. Waldbaum (typescript)	1973
Box 6	Folder 7	Sardis Synagogue
		Scope and Contents Materials and reprints
Box 6	Folder 8	"Sardis Synagogue Inscriptions," paper by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 6	Folder 9	Sardis Synagogue Inscriptions
		Scope and Contents Materials
Box 6	Folder 10	Sardis Inscriptions-Photographs
Box 6	Folder 11	Sardis Inscriptions-Notes, etc.
Box 6	Folder 11-1	"Sepharad/Sardis"
Box 6	Folder 12	"A Preliminary Bibliography of Sardis" by George M.A. Hanfmann
		Parahyba/Phoenician Hoaxes
Box 6	Folder 13	Phoenician Hoax	1968
		Scope and Contents Correspondence with Cornell and newspaper clipping from the Boston Globe
Box 6	Folder 14	Parahyba Hoax	1968
		Scope and Contents Correspondence with Cornell, New York Times, and Yale University Library
Box 6	Folder 15	Parahyba Hoax
		Scope and Contents Materials
		A Witness Forever
Box 6	Folder 16	A Witness Forever	1984
		Scope and Contents Correspondence with prospective publishers
Box 6	Folder 17	Witness Forever Correspondence	1983-1988
Box 6	Folder 18	Materials relevant to A Witness Forever	1969-1984
		Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, related materials, and note
Box 6	Folder 19	A Witness Forever: Original Text Edited By JBR and Reviewed by Isaac Rabinowitz (galley)
		Judah Messer Leon
Box 6	Folder 20	"Sepher Nopheth Suphim: the Book of the Honeycomb's Flow" Composed by Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, Edited and Translated by Isaac Rabinowitz, 1
Box 6	Folder 21	"Sepher Nopheth Suphim: the Book of the Honeycomb's Flow" Composed by Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, Edited and Translated by Isaac Rabinowitz, 2
Box 6	Folder 22	Translation Manuscript of "Sepher Nopheth Suphim: the Book of the Honeycomb's Flow", Part 1
Box 6	Folder 23	Translation Manuscript of "Sepher Nopheth Suphim: the Book of the Honeycomb's Flow", Part 2
Box 6	Folder 24	Translation Copy with Corrections of "Sepher Nopheth Suphim: the Book of the Honeycomb's Flow"
Box 6	Folder 25	Introduction to Nopheth Suphim
		Scope and Contents Notes
Box 6	Folder 26	Notes on Texts relative to Nopheth Suphim
Box 6	Folder 27	Nopheth Suphim: Return of Roth; Copy of C
Box 7	Folder 1	Translation of Nopheth Suphim: Notes, Bibliography, etc.
Box 7	Folder 2	Nopheth Suphim: Business letter, etc	1962-1974
Box 7	Folder 3	Nopheth Suphim: Hotsaah: Plan of Work	1960-1973
		Scope and Contents Correspondence about funding, Nopheth Suphim's manuscript, and the progress of translation
Box 7	Folder 4	Letters re work on Nopheth Suphim	1959-1966
Box 7	Folder 5	Letter outlining plan of publication of Nopheth Suphim; Preface	1962-1974
Box 7	Folder 6	Harry Caplan's Nopheth Suphim Emendation
		Scope and Contents Page 186-413. HC likely refers to Harry Caplan
Box 7	Folder 7	Harry Caplan's Nopheth Suphim Emendation
		Scope and Contents Page 414-477
Box 7	Folder 8	Harry Caplan's Nopheth Suphim Emendation
		Scope and Contents Page 478-643
Box 7	Folder 9	Harry Caplan's Nopheth Suphim Emendation
		Scope and Contents Page 644-709
Box 7	Folder 10	Photocopy of Nophet Suphim
Box 7	Folder 11	Reprints of Papers on/by Judah Messer Leon
Box 7	Folder 12	Munich and Parma Mss of Nopheth Suphim
Box 7	Folder 13	IV. The Nopheth Suphim Itself
Box 7	Folder 14	References to Judah Messer Leon
Box 7	Folder 15	Messer Leon's Works-beginning with David Messer Leon's Letter
		David Messer Leon (Son of Judah Messer Leon)
Box 7	Folder 16	Reprints: David Messer Leon
Box 7	Folder 17	Material on Rabbi David Messer Leon
Box 7	Folder 18	Photograph of Rabbi David Messer Leon
		Sepher Hayyashar
Box 7	Folder 19	the Nature and Function of Sepher Hayyashar (Paper and Lecture)	1978
Box 7	Folder 20	Sepher Hayyshar Notes
Box 7	Folder 21	Sepher Hayyshar
		"On Being Jewish"
Box 7	Folder 22	On Being Jewish
		Scope and Contents Notes and Newspaper Clippings
Box 7	Folder 23	Materials: On Being Jewish
		Pesher/Pesher Nahum
Box 7	Folder 24	Pesher Nahum
		Scope and Contents Notes and Materials
Box 7	Folder 25	"Demetrius"-Passage of Nahum-Pesher
		Scope and Contents Contains correspondence and two copies of 'the Meaning of the Key ("Demetrius")-Passage of the Qumran Nahum-Pesher"
Box 7	Folder 26	Pesher
		Scope and Contents Notes, correspondence, and offprint "The Pesher of Dreams and Scriptures"
Box 7	Folder 27	Pesher, etc. (R. de Q.)	1972
		Scope and Contents Includes manuscripts of "Pēsher/pittārōn: Its Biblical Meaning and its Significance in the Qumran Literature"
Box 7	Folder 28	Pesher and Pesher texts of Qumran
		Scope and Contents Notes
		"The Theory of Biblical Hebrew Literature: Prolegomena to a Valid Literary Criticism of the Hebrew Bible"
Box 7	Folder 29	Introductory: Foreword, Preface, Outlines
Box 7	Folder 30	II: "Word", "Name" in the culture of ancient Israel-nature and process in the Culture of Ancient Israel
Box 7	Folder 31	III: "Writing"-Occasions and Motives for Writing-Function of Literary Recording-Connection with Word
Box 7	Folder 32	IV: Statement of Theory
Box 7	Folder 33	V: the Meaning of the "Bible" to Those Who First Wrote and Used It
Box 7	Folder 34	VI: Historical Sketch of the Production and Compilation of the O.T.-Redaktionsgeschichte
Box 7	Folder 35	VIII: Conflate Nature of the Text of the O.T. (pre-versions)
Box 7	Folder 36	IX: Canon-Meaning of Scripture for Jews and Christians-History of Later Interpretation
		How Ancient Israel Perceived Literature: towards A Culturally Valid Understanding of the Hebrew Bible
Box 7	Folder 37	Copy of "How Ancient Israel Perceived Literature: towards A Culturally Valid Understanding of the Hebrew Bible" with notations, 1
Box 7	Folder 38	Copy of "How Ancient Israel Perceived Literature: towards A Culturally Valid Understanding of the Hebrew Bible" with notations, 2
		'Āz Followed by Imperfect Verb-Form: A Redactional Device in Biblical Hebrew
Box 7	Folder 39	'Āz Followed by Imperfect Verb-Form: A Redactional Device in Biblical Hebrew	1982-1984
		Scope and Contents Includes notes, manuscripts, and copies
Box 7	Folder 40	'Āz Followed by Imperfect Verb-Form in Preterite Contexts: A Redactional Device in Biblical Hebrew
		Scope and Contents Copy
Box 7	Folder 41	'Āz Followed by Imperfect Verb-Form in Preterite Contexts: A Redactional Device in Biblical Hebrew
		Scope and Contents Copy and a short note
		Other Notes (in Alphabetical Order)
Box 7	Folder 42	Aramaic-Lydian Bilingual
Box 7	Folder 43	Bibliography, R in 19th Century. etc.
Box 7	Folder 43-1	Bibliography--Rhetorica
Box 8	Folder 1	Cassuto, Colorni, Rorenbeeg, et, al
Box 8	Folder 2	Chapters 3, 4
		Scope and Contents Summary of Deuteronomy
Box 8	Folder 3	Concise Aramaic Grammar-Bauer-Leander
Box 8	Folder 4	Concise Biblical Aramaic Grammar
		Scope and Contents Contains manuscript "Shorter Biblical Aramaic Grammar by Hans Bauer and Pontus Leander, Translated and Adapted from German into English by Isaac Rabinowitz" and "Course in Biblical, Palestinian Jewish and Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic"
Box 8	Folder 5	Cratylus
Box 8	Folder 6	"Damascus" Fragments IX:1-Revue de Qumran
Box 8	Folder 7	Daskyleion
		Scope and Contents Also contains some offprints.
Box 8	Folder 8	de Vaux Fragment	1951-1952
		Scope and Contents Correspondence on Isaac Rabinowitz's article in "de Vaux Fragment of an Unknown Work"
Box 8	Folder 9	Entsiklopediah mikrait
		Scope and Contents Mainly notes, also contains offprints
Box 8	Folder 10	Entsiklopediah mikrait
		Scope and Contents Notes, correspondence
Box 8	Folder 11	Ezekiel
Box 8	Folder 12	First Copy: Ancient Israel's Theory of Literature
Box 8	Folder 13	Fourth Century B.C.E. Aramaic Papyrus from Samaria
Box 8	Folder 14	Genesis 2:18-20; Theme of Gen.-IK:10, Implications of the Scriptures as World-Plan for the Compilation of the Scripture Production
Box 8	Folder 15	Cornell Alumni News	1957-1967
		Scope and Contents Issues containing Isaac Rabinowitz's articles.
Box 8	Folder 16	Gen 21:7
		Scope and Contents Sarah's wish
Box 8	Folder 17	Gen 22:13
Box 8	Folder 18	Genesis Apocryphon
Box 8	Folder 19	"Hebrew in American College and University Sites" by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 8	Folder 20	Hebrew papyri: Photostats, etc.
Box 8	Folder 21	Hold-Various notes on Scrolls and Other Studies
Box 8	Folder 22	Isaiah, I and II
Box 8	Folder 23	Jeremiah
Box 8	Folder 24	Jonah
Box 8	Folder 25	Kipurim, etc.
		Scope and Contents Contains notes, correspondence, and copies
Box 7		Language Notecards (Hebrew, Latin, Greek)
Box 8	Folder 26	"Literature as Perceived by the Creators of the Hebrew Bible" by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 8		Maimonides: Notecards
Box 8	Folder 27	Material for Summary Chapter
Box 8	Folder 28	Material on Biblical Rhetoric
Box 8	Folder 29	Obadiah
Box 8	Folder 30	Oneirokritikon
		Scope and Contents Notes and offprint
Box 8	Folder 31	Preface to Biblical Hebrew Literature, "Memoranda", paper
		Scope and Contents Also contains syllabus for Lit 360
Box 8	Folder 32	Psalms//Parallelism
Box 8	Folder 33	Psalms-Scroll Notes; 11QPsxa
Box 8	Folder 34	Q Psa-David's Compositions
Box 8	Folder 35	Quotation in Bible: Interpreter's Dictionary	1960
		Scope and Contents Contains correspondence about dictionary purchase and Professor Rabinowitz's copy of the pages he contributed to the dictionary
Box 8	Folder 36	Samuel II Translations: chapter 15, 16, 17
Box 8	Folder 37	Sefer ha-yashar (Joshua 10:12-14-II Samuel 1:18)
Box 8	Folder 38	Sarbalchthanel
Box 8	Folder 39	Sarbēth Sarbane EL
		Scope and Contents notes and offprint
Box 8	Folder 40	Scriptural Interpretation: its notes in relation to normative fund, etc
Box 8	Folder 41	Scroll-Papers
		Scope and Contents About the "Damascus" Fragments. Also contains several offprints.
Box 8	Folder 42	Shir ha-shirim
Box 8	Folder 43	Syriac ms. Notes
Box 8	Folder 44	Text, Conat, etc.
Box 8	Folder 45	"The Crux at Amos 3:12" by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 8	Folder 46	"The Hebrew Bible as a Literary Unity" by Isaac Rabinowitz
		Scope and Contents Also contains syllabus for Semitics 330/Comparative Literature 323
Box 8	Folder 47	War-Scroll-1QM
		Scope and Contents Translation of War Scroll
Box 8	Folder 48	Yem. Nebuch. Apocryphon
		Scope and Contents Translation of War Scroll
		Other Articles (in Alphabetical Order)
Box 8	Folder 49	Ahisefer	1955
		Scope and Contents A journal that contains Isaac Rabinowitz's Essay
Box 8	Folder 50	Ephphathá, etc
		Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, offprints, copies, and notes
Box 8	Folder 51	Ephphathá	1970
		Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, offprints, copies, and notes
Box 8	Folder 52	JWB Circle in Jewish Bookland	1953-1957
		Scope and Contents Contains Isaac Rabinowitz's article "A Book That Abounds in High-Soaring Hypotheses"
Box 8	Folder 53	Kiev Festschrift	1968-1971
		Scope and Contents Contains copies of "A Rectification of the Date of Judah Messer Leon's Death" by Prof. Rabinowitz, written for Dr. I. Edward Kiev's Festschrift
Box 8	Folder 54	Moreh Tsedek
		Scope and Contents Contains "The Guide of Righteousness" by Professor Rabinowitz and notes
Box 8	Folder 55	Papers relating to the "Power of the Word" debate: Professor Rabinowitz's papers and those of Ban, Theslton and others
Box 8	Folder 56	Samaritan-Arabic Ms	1957
Box 8	Folder 57	Speeches, Sermons, Articles	1937
Box 8	Folder 58	The Brooklyn Jewish Center Review	1951
		Scope and Contents Contains Isaac Rabinowitz's Article "The Greatest Manuscript Find of Our Time"
Box 9	Folder 1	"The Qumran Authors' SPR HHGW\|Y"
		Scope and Contents Contains copies, notes, and correspondence
Box 9	Folder 2	Writings, Speeches, etc.
		Scope and Contents Contains "What shall we offer our youth?" and "Jewish Attitudes of Jewish College Youth" section 2, both by Isaac Rabinowitz
		Series IV. Offprints of Articles, Writings by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 9	Folder 3	"Another Aramaic Record of the North-Arabian Goddess Han-Ilat"	1959
Box 9	Folder 4	Entsiklopediah mikrait
Box 9	Folder 5	Sarah's Wish (Gen. XXI 6-7)
Box 9	Folder 6	"The Alleged Orphism of 11Q PSS 28 3-12"	1964
Box 9	Folder 7	"The Meaning and Date of 'Damascus Document IX, 1"	1968
Box 9	Folder 8	"The Qumran Authors' SPR HHGW\|Y"	1961
Box 9	Folder 9	"The Meaning of the Key ('Demetrius')-Passage of the Qumran Nahum-Pesher"	1977
Box 9	Folder 10	Isaac Rabinowitz's Offprints 1
Box 9	Folder 11	Isaac Rabinowitz's Offprints 2
Box 9	Folder 12	Isaac Rabinowitz's Offprints 3
		Series V. Courses, Offered Mainly by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 9	Folder 13	Ancient Israel's Theory of Literature-Seminar	1972
Box 9	Folder 14	Arabs and Arabica	1964
Box 9	Folder 15	Aramaic 451 Notes, etc.	1954-1969
Box 9	Folder 16	Aramaic Courses	1955
Box 9	Folder 17	Comparative Literature 301	1970-1971
Box 9	Folder 18	Comparative Literature 301: Topics for Papers	1966-1971
Box 9	Folder 19	Comparative Literature 302 Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Literary and Historical Context	1971
Box 9	Folder 20	Comparative Literature 323/Semitics 330	Fall Term 1973, 1974
Box 9	Folder 21	Comparative Literature 324/Semitics 331, Literature of Nascent Judaism and Christianity, Syllabus,etc.	1974-1975
Box 9	Folder 22	Dead Sea Scroll-Seminar-Qumranica
Box 9	Folder 23	Exams in Hebrew and Aramaic	1972
Box 9	Folder 23-1	Graded Examinations--Confidential
Box 9	Folder 24	Hebrew 102 (Notes on Ruth)
Box 9	Folder 25	Hebrew 201: Bereshit	March, 1962
Box 9	Folder 26	Hebrew 201: I Samuel
Box 9	Folder 27	Hebrew 201-2: Notes: Mainly Shofetim and yeshayahu
Box 9	Folder 28	Hebrew 202 (Notes on Readings) Parallelism	1960-1964
Box 9	Folder 29	Hebrew 202-Amos/Psalms
Box 9	Folder 30	Hebrew 204	1971
Box 9	Folder 31	Literature 206-Lectures
Box 9	Folder 32	Literature 301-Quotations and Topics for Student Essays	1967-1977
Box 9	Folder 33	Literature 302/Semitic 331/Comparative Literature 324, Topics for Student Papers, etc.
Box 9	Folder 34	Literature 206/302-Syllabus	1963-1968
Box 9	Folder 35	Literature of Ancient Israel	1977
		Scope and Contents Also contains offprints of papers by Professor Rabinowitz
Box 9	Folder 36	Pre-Christian Jewish Literature	Spring 1973
Box 9	Folder 37	Sanhedrin: Class Notes
Box 9	Folder 38	Semitics-Syllabi-Exams	1967-1977
Box 9	Folder 39	Semitics 102-103: Elementary Classical Hebrew-Exams	1973-1974
Box 9	Folder 40	Semitics 330/Comparative Literature 323-Fall Terms; Near Eastern Studies 331	1976-1977
Box 9	Folder 41	Semitics 453: Syriac	1970
Box 9	Folder 42	Semitics 453-454: Syriac
Box 9	Folder 43	Wayne State University Courses, Department of Semitics, etc.	1956-1960
Box 9	Folder 44	Wayne State Hebrew Courses
Box 9	Folder 45	Wayne State Jewish History Courses	1957
Box 9	Folder 46	Wayne State Jewish Thought Courses	1956-1957
		Series VI. Speeches and Lectures
Box 9	Folder 47	"A Recovered Key to the Understanding of the Hebrew Bible"	1972
		Scope and Contents Speech notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings
Box 9	Folder 48	"A Recovered Key to the Understanding of the Hebrew Bible"
		Scope and Contents Speech notes
Box 9	Folder 49	"A Recovered Key to the Understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures," Galveston Talk	Feb 18, 1972
Box 9	Folder 50	Materials on Newark and Detroit Scroll-Lectures 1955-56: Publicity, Newspaper articles on Dead Sea Scrolls, notes, etc.	1955-1956
Box 9	Folder 51	Messenger Lectures	1969
		Scope and Contents "From The Hasmoneans to Bar-Kochba" by Dr. Yigael Yadin; schedule and correspondence
Box 9	Folder 52	Pencilled Drafts of Lectures
		Scope and Contents "The Hebrew Bible as a literary Unity", "The Nature and Function of Sepher Hayyashar"
Box 9	Folder 53	Personal Business; Lecture Invitations, etc.	1956
Box 10	Folder 1	Qumran Scroll-Lectures, etc.-Sanders Bibliography
Box 10	Folder 2	Radio Interview with Joe Leeming	November 22, 1972
Box 10	Folder 3	Record of Extra	1959-1969
		Scope and Contents Correspondence about delivering speeches
Box 10	Folder 4	Research Club Lecture: Qumran Scrolls, Dead Sea Scrolls	1960
Box 10	Folder 5	Michigan Hillel Foundation: Speeches and Writings	1938-1940
Box 10	Folder 6	Speeches: Ithaca	1958-1962
Box 10	Folder 7	Talk to Bill Kaven's Class	1987
Box 10	Folder 8	Wesleyan Lectures	April 17-28, 1976
		Series VII. Scholarly or Critical Reviews by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 10	Folder 9	Book Reviews by Isaac Rabinowitz, Dupont-Sommer, A. and Zeitlin, Solomon	1952
Box 10	Folder 10	In Jewish Bookland	1976
		Scope and Contents Contains correspondence with Jewish Book Council of America and a copy of Jewish Bookland
Box 10	Folder 11	Review for JAOS (Journal of the American Oriental Society) [of Smolar/Aberbach/Churgin: TJ to the Prophets] and Fishbane	1984-1988
		Scope and Contents "Targum Jonathan to the Prophet" by Pinkhos Churgin, "Studies in Targum Jonathan to the Prophet" by Leivy Smolar and Moses Aberbach
Box 10	Folder 12	Fishbane Review-JAOS	1985-1986
		Scope and Contents Isaac Rabinowitz's review of "Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel" by Michael Fishbane
Box 10	Folder 13	Review of Jean. Le Moyne, Les Sadducéens-J.Carignac, Editor, R. de Qumran	1972
Box 10	Folder 14	Journal of Semitic Studies-James Barr-etc.	1964-1973
Box 10	Folder 15	"The Error-Born Orphism of 11Q PSS 28:3-12"	1963-1964
		Scope and Contents The article is written by Isaac Rabinowitz. The file also contains some offprints and correspondence.
Box 10	Folder 16	"Trever's Taw and Orlinsky's Argument" by Isaac Rabinowitz
Box 10	Folder 17	William Brownlee
		Scope and Contents Contains Isaac Rabinowitz's review for William Brownlee and some offprints, journals
Box 10	Folder 18	JBL Reviews	1985
		Scope and Contents (Journal of Biblical Literature.) The file also contains Review by J.Hoftijzer
		Series VIII. Collection of Journals and Others' Work
Box 10	Folder 19	Amos Funkenstein	1970-1972
Box 10	Folder 20	Andrew and Nancy Ramage	1987
Box 10	Folder 21	Aramaic Offprints
Box 10	Folder 22	Averroes: Talkhis on Aristotle's Rhetoric: Ms. Florence
Box 10	Folder 23	Dead Sea Scroll, etc. Offprints	1968
		Scope and Contents By Yigael Yadin
Box 10	Folder 24	"Greek Inscriptions"-Typescript (author unidentified)
Box 10	Folder 25	Inscription of Eliba'al
Box 10	Folder 26	J.A. Emerton	1967-1971
		Scope and Contents Offprints
Box 10	Folder 27	Joseph. E. Fontenrose	1960-1974
		Scope and Contents Offprints
Box 10	Folder 28	Lasinio: Averroes' Talkhis on Aristotle's Rhetoric	1959
Box 10	Folder 29	Leiden Ms. Averroes/Rhetoric
Box 10	Folder 30	Mid-East Intelligence Survey	1979-1980
Box 10	Folder 31	Moshe Pelli-Offprints
Box 10	Folder 32	Offprints	1960-1972
Box 10	Folder 33	Offprints: Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls	1957-1973
Box 11	Folder 1	Offprints-1988 by Gary A. Rendsburg	1988
Box 11	Folder 2	Rouleau du Temple de Qoumrân / A. Caquot
Box 11	Folder 3	Some Pages of the Paris Ms. of the Arabic Version of Aristotle's Rhetoric
Box 11	Folder 4	Staff Papers, etc.
Box 11	Folder 5	The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible
Box 11	Folder 6	"The Naming of Isaac" by John Ronning	1986
Box 11	Folder 7	Toaff off-Prints on Italian Jewry, 1
Box 11	Folder 8	Toaff off-Prints on Italian Jewry, 2
Box 11	Folder 9	Todros (1st Paris Ms.)
Box 11	Folder 10	Todros (2nd Paris Ms.)
Box 11	Folder 11	W.G. Rabinowitz: "Rôle of Eleaticism in Aristotle's Discussion of Moral Virtue"	1960
Box 11	Folder 12	Miscellaneous Journals and Newspaper	1960
		Series IX. Reactions, Criticisms, and Reports
Box 11	Folder 13	Cornell Reporter/Cornell Chronicle Stories and Inquiries	1972-1974
Box 11	Folder 14	Lit. -Reaction and Criticisms (including Norwell Therien and Bernhard Kendler)	1973-1983
Box 11	Folder 15	Reactions to Nopheth Suphim
Box 11	Folder 16	Towards A Valid Theory of Biblical Literature	1964-1969
		Series X. Book Collections and Purchases
Box 11	Folder 17	Books	1971
		Scope and Contents Purchase Receipts
Box 11	Folder 18	Book Collection Expenses	1949-1970
		Scope and Contents Receipts and correspondence
Box 11	Folder 19	Book Purchases, etc.
		Scope and Contents Receipts and correspondence
Box 11	Folder 20	Book Purchases and Correspondence-"In Jewish Bookland", etc.	1955-1957
Box 11	Folder 21	Otto Harrassowitz-Wiesbaden	1978-1982
		Scope and Contents Receipts and Correspondence
Box 11	Folder 22	Rare Hebraica-Judaica Collection	1972-1988
Box 11	Folder 23	Rare Judaica Collection	1979
Box 11	Folder 24	Rare Judaica Collection	1979-1980
Box 11	Folder 25	Report about Rabinowitz Collection	1987
Box 11	Folder 26	Sale of Zimara 1516 ed. Vol. 1 of Aristotle-Averroes to Wellcome Library	1983
		Series XI. Travels
Box 11	Folder 27	Travel/Banking	1971-1972
Box 11	Folder 28	Travel Expenses	1962
Box 11	Folder 29	Trip to Europe and Israel	June 9, 1962-September 9,1962
Box 11	Folder 30	Kansas City Trip	1969
Box 11	Folder 31	Trip to Israel	Mar 20-May 4, 1978
Box 11	Folder 32	Trip to N.Y.-Philadelphia	December, 1963
Box 11	Folder 33	Trip - Nopheth Suphim. Letter, etc.	1962
		Series XII. Bound Manuscripts from Rabinowitz collection #4661
	4661 Bd. Ms. 1	[Ḳovets be-khishuf]	18--
		103 leaves ; 15 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., written in a Greek-Sephardi hand. This ms. is a fortune-teller's handbook. Many graffiti, some in Greek and Judaeo-Greek. Sefer ha-goralot is attributed to Abraham ibn Ezra.Table of contents: Urim ṿe-tumim (leaves 6a-31a) Sefer ha-goralot / Even ʻEzra (leaves 33b-44a) Shaʻar toldot bene Adam (leaf 46b) Reʻamim u-raʻashim (leaf 47b) Segulot u-ḳemeʻot (leaves 49a-52b) Goralot / Saʻadyah Ga'on (leaves 55b-68a)
	4661 Bd. Ms. 2 tiny	Totseʼot ḥayim, Reshit ḥokhmah. Selections	16--
		[93] p. ; 15 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Vidas, Elijah ben Moses de Notes: Ms., written in a North African Sephardi hand. Totseʼot ḥayim is an abridgement of Vidas' ethical and cabalistic work Reshit ḥokhmah. It is probably a transcription of the Amsterdam printed ed. of 1650. Title from running title. Also includes his Yoreh ḥaṭaʼim ba-derekh (drawn from Isaiah Horowitz' Shene luḥot ha-Berit).
	4661 Bd. Ms. 3	[Kelale Shemuʼel]	17--
		[166] p. ; 20 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Sid, Samuel Ibn Notes: Ms., written in an East European Ashkenazi hand. Includes: Kelale Shemuʼel (Samuel's Rules); with additional notes by an unknown Talmudist in a second scribal hand.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 4-5	[Legal works]	18--
		[96] leaves (in 2 cases) ; 23 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Albuḥair, David Notes: Ms., in a Sephardi hand. Author's autograph on several leaves. Ms. contains novellae (on Talmud), liḳuṭim (on Maimonides), responsa (correspondence with various contemporary legal authorities). In cases labeled: Legal works.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 6++	[Papers of Rabbi Ishmael Cohen of Modena]	1738-1799
		[67] leaves ; 38 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Notes: Ms., of variantly sized sheets. Written in an Italian hand except for a long letter (5 long sheets) of Responsa (written in Ashkenazi cursive script), from an East European authority, perhaps R. Reuben Selig Ashkenazi of Zamoscz. Papers include: Novellae on Talmud and Maimonides' Code, Responsa, Confession-formulary for the eve of Rosh ha-Shanah, homiletical notes on Genesis.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 7	Sefer Shemen ha-mishḥah, Shemen ha-mishḥah	18--
		34 leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Shemuʾel ben Mosheh Ḥayim. Notes: Ms., written in a Sephardi hand. Text is mainly on civil law, legal responsa. Inscribed leaves are in various sizes. With vignette. Part 1, only, of this work was printed in Constantinople in 1840. In case labeled: Samuel b. Moses Hayyim.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 8	[Kitve ha-Ari annotations]	17--
		[192] leaves, bound : 1 ill. ; 21 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph Notes: Ms., written in an East European cursive hand. Annotations, mainly by Vital on various aspects of the Lurianic Kabalah. An owner of the ms., writing in 1879, has added marginal notes indicating other works in which portions of the material are to be found (leaves [1-159]). An additional work is included (leaves [161-192]) consisting of annotations of Vital's Otsrot hayim, attributed to R. Natan Spira and to Mosheh Zakuto. This work is written in an East European Rashi-script. Title on spine: Kithebhe ha-ʼAri. Notes by I. Rabinowitz inserted.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 9-10+	[Otsrot Ḥayim], Lurianic Kabbalah	16--
		167 leaves (bound in 2 v.) ; 26 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Vital, Hayyim ben Joseph Notes: Ms., written in a North African hand. Annotations by Avraham Azulai and others. This ms. is quite different from the printed eds. of this work. Leaves are missing at the beginning and end of the ms. In cases labeled: Lurianic Kabbalah.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 11	[Derushim ʻal sefer Otsrot Ḥayim]	17--
		[180] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph Notes: Ms., written in East European Ashkenazi cursive hand. Nine disquisitions based upon Sefer Otsrot Ḥayim.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 12	Afṭariot ha-Torah, Haftarot. Aramaic & Hebrew	1673
		[178] leaves; 22 cm. (4to)
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., originated in Yemen. Title taken from caption. Scripture and Targum in superlinear vocalization.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 13	[Seder ṿe-Tashlikh ; [ṿe], Seder Hoshaʻna Raba], Seder Tashlikh	18--
		[80] p. ; 18 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., written in several Italian hands. Liturgy from Minhag Carpentras.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 14-16++	[Sidur, Temani], Siddur (Yemen)	1511-1650
		[184], [6] leaves (in 3 cases) ; 33 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., in Yemenite script. In addition to daily, Sabbath, and festival prayers, the ms. contains Pirḳe Avot, Scroll of the Hasmoneans (in Aramaic), blessing-formulae, a calendrical work and calendrical tables, a legal document formulary, poems and hymns (by Ibn Gabirol, Yehudah Halevi, A. Ibn Ezra, etc.). The ms. is dated 1511 for some parts; 1649-1650 for others.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 17-18	[Sidur minhag Sefarad]	1792
		145 leaves (bound in 2 v.) ; 17 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., North African Sephardi. The Siddur has many additions and Kaṿanot of mystical character; also calendrical texts. In cases labeled: Siddur, minhag Sepharad.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 19	Maḥazor	1832
		[212] leaves ; 23 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., in Yemenite script. Title taken from caption title. Includes prayers for Festivals and the Fast of the 9th day of Av. Other texts include: Scroll of the Hasmoneans (in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic [treated as if sacred Scripture]; Pirḳe Avot; Midrash of the Ten Commandments, Peṭirat Aharon and Peṭirat Mosheh (in Judaeo-Arabic); legal and ritual formularies; calendrical pieces (mainly in Judaeo-Arabic), etc.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 20	Sefer shel pizmonin di moʻadim zeh sefer shel ʻAzaryah Laṭaś me-ʻir Ḳuni	1799
		56 leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., compiled by Azariah Lattes of Cuneo (Italy) in accord with the liturgy of Provence. Title taken from leaf [14a]. Original t.p. has an erasure: Zeh sefer pizmonim shel moʻadim di ---]. At head of title of original t.p.: Sefer.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 21	[Maḥazor le-Rosh ha-Shanah, minhag Ḳarpenṭrats]	17--
		130 leaves ; 20 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Maḥzor (Carpentras, France). Rosh ha-Shanah Notes: Title on case: Minhag carpentras. Ms., written in Provençal script.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 22	[Maḥazor Sukot, Shemini ʻatseret ṿe-Śimḥat Torah lefi minhag Ḳarpenṭrats]	17--
		[333] p. ; 19 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Maḥzor (Carpentras, France). Sukkot Notes: Ms., written in a Provençal hand. Includes: Liturgy for Sukot, Hoshaʻna raba, Shemini ʻatseret,and Śimḥat Torah in the minhag of Carpentras, France.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 23	[Sheḥiṭah]	17--
		[148] p. ; 21 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., written in a Sephardi hand. Includes: 1. Various texts on matters germane to ritual meat-slaughtering (including some poetry); 2. ha-Ḥibur meha-Bediḳot / Nisim ha-Kohen; 3. Responsa on the laws of sheḥiṭah, based on the Code of Maimonides. Includes some Judaeo-Italian and Italian graffiti.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 24	Sefer toldot Yitsḥaḳ	17--
		226 leaves : ill. ; 19 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Isaac ben David Alzera Notes: Ms., written in a North-African Sephardi hand. Text is a miscellany, containing calendrical and meteorological texts, a work on grammar, various homilies, and other material, not all the original work of this compiler. With vignette.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 25+	Liḳutim ʻal ha-Torah me-S. Naḥal Ḳedumim, Naḥal Ḳedumim. Selections	18--
		[29] p. (2 columns) ; 23 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David Notes: In case labeled: Sepher Nahal Qedumim. Ms., Yemenite, is an abridgement of the printed text, probably printed in Livorno, Italy, in 1794. The last 7 p. are copied by a second ms. hand., with notes and comments of mainly mystical character.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 26 tiny	[Perush ʻal Perush ha-Torah le-Rashi]	18--
		46 leaves ; 17 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., North African, Sephardi. Commentary on Genesis 6:1-41:1. Unidentified author. A note on leaf [1] reads: "Zeh ha-sefer yotsro ṿe-gam ḥoḳro ha-Rav Maharam"Ṭ [mi-Ṭoledano?]. Several members of the Toledano family had written commentaries on Rashi's works.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 27	[Midrash ha-Neʻelam ; Shir ha-shirim ; Rut ; Ḳohelet ; Maʻaśeh be-Ḥiram melekh Tsor], Bible. Five Scrolls. Selections.	17--
		[264] p. ; 23 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., originated in Yemen. Includes: Scripture and Targum of Song of Songs, with Targum in superlinear vocalization; Book of Ruth and Ecclesiastes with Targum and commentaries; portions of Midrash ha-Neʻelam; and, Maʻaśeh be-Ḥiram melekh Tsor.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 28	[Midrash on Megilat Ester]	17--
		10 leaves, bound and cased ; 19 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., written in a North African Sephardi hand. Judeo-Arabic text; very fragmentary and stained. Title on cover of ms. and on spine of case: Midrash on Ester.
	4661 Bd. Ms. 29	Yad ḥaruzim	17--
		68 leaves ; 25 cm.
		Scope and Contents Author: Unknown Notes: Ms., written in an Italian hand. The rhyming phrases are drawn mainly from the Talmud. This ms. is not the same as the Yad ḥaruzim of Gershom ben Moses Hefez, which was printed in Venice in 1700. The ms. vol. also contains 2 loose inserts: 1. A prayer for utterance by a person in jail and awaiting trial; 2. An anecdote about a Jewish trapeze-artist who saved a family in Alençon from death by fire.

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Isaac Rabinowitz papers, [ca. 1965-1988] Collection Number: 14-30-3937

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Isaac Rabinowitz papers, [ca. 1965-1988]
Collection Number: 14-30-3937

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library