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Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939], at sacred-texts.com

B.—HEBREW SOURCES, PRINTED

Abraham b. Nathan (c. 1300), Sefer HaManhig, Warsaw 1885.

Alexander Süsslein HaKohen (d. 1349), Sefer HaAgguda, Krakau 1571.

Baruch b. Isaac (c. 1200), Sefer HaTerumah, Warsaw 1897.

Caro, Joseph b. Ephraim (1488-1575), Shulḥan ‘Aruch, comprising Yore Deah, Oraḥ Ḥayim, Eben Ha‘Ezer, and Ḥoshen HaMishpat.

Da’at Ẓekenim, Leghorn 1783.

Eleazar b. Abraham Altschul (c. 1600), Sefer Kne Ḥochmah Kne Binah, Krakau 1894.

Eleazar b. Judah b. Kalonymos of Worms (d. c. 1238),

Sefer HaRokeaḥ, Warsaw 1880.
Ḥochmat HaNefesh, Lemberg 1876.
Ma’ase HaRokeaḥ, Sanok 1912.
Perush al Sefer Yeẓirah, Przemysl 1883.
Sefer Ma‘asim Yain HaRokeaḥ, Lublin 1608.
Sha‘are HaSod veHaYiḥud veHaEmunah, in Kochve Yiẓḥak, XVII (1862), 7-15.
Account of persecutions in Mainz 1187-8, in Neubauer and Stern, Hebräische Berichte, No. 5.

Eliezer b. Joel HaLevi (d. c. 1235), Sefer Rabiah, ed. V. Aptowitzer, Berlin and Jerusalem 1912-1936.

Eliezer b. Nathan of Mainz (1st half 12th century), Sefer Eben Ha‘Ezer (Raben), Simleul-Silvanici 1926.

Eliezer b. Samuel of Metz (d. 1198), Sefer Yereim, Vilna 1881.

Elijah Levita (1468-1549), Sefer HaTishbi, Grodno 1805.

Epstein, Jeḥiel Michel (middle 17th century), Kiẓur Shne Luhot HaBrit (Kiẓur Shelah), Warsaw 1874.

Gans, David (1541-1613), Neḥmad veNa‘im, Jessnitz 1743.

Hadar Zekenim, Leghorn 1840.

Hebrew Ethical Wills, ed. Israel Abrahams, 2 vols., Philadelphia 1926.

Horowitz, Abraham b. Shabbetai (16th century),

Yesh Noḥalin, Amsterdam 1701.
‘Emek HaBeracha, Amsterdam 1729.
Brit Abraham, Lemberg 1875.

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Horowitz, Isaiah b. Abraham (c. 1555-c. 1630), Shne Luḥot HaBrit (Shelah), 3 vols., Lemberg 1860.

Horowitz, Shabbetai b. Israel, Ẓevaah, at end of Yesh Noḥalin, Amsterdam 1701.

Ḥayim b. Beẓalel (d. 1588),

Sefer HaḤayim, Warsaw 1876.
Iggeret HaTiyul, Lemberg 1864.
Vikuaḥ Mayim Ḥayim, Amsterdam 1712.

Ḥayim b. Isaac Or Zarua (13th century), Responsa, Leipzig 1860.

Isaac b. Eliakim of Posen (16th century), Lev Tov, Amsterdam 1723.

Isaac b. Eliezer (15th century), Sefer HaGan, Diehrenfurt 1808.

Isaac b. Joseph of Corbeil (second half 13th century), Sefer Mizvot Katan (Semak), Kopys 1820.

Isaac b. Judah HaLevi (second half 13th century), Pa‘aneaḥ Raza, Tarnopol 1813.

Isaac b. Moses of Vienna (c. 1200-70), Or Zarua‘, Pt. I and II, Zitomir 1862, Pt. III and IV, Jerusalem 1887-90.

Isaac Tyrnau (14th-15th century), Sefer Minhagim, Warsaw 1869.

Israel Bruna (15th century), Responsa, Stettin 1860.

Israel Isserlein (d. 1460),

Terumat HaDeshen, Furth 1778.
Pesakim Uketabim, Fürth 1778.
Sefer Biure Maharai, Piotrkov 1908.

Jacob HaLevi of Marvège (13th century), She’elot Uteshubot min HaShamayim, Livorno 1818, at end of Responsa of David ibn Abi Zimra (Radbaz); and

Kuntras She’elot Uteshubot min HaShamayim, ed. A. Marcus, Krakau 1895.

Jacob b. Meir Tam (1100-1171), Sefer HaYashar, ed. F. Rosenthal, Berlin 1888.

Jacob b. Moses Mölln (c. 1365-1427), Sefer Maharil, Warsaw 1874. Responsa, Krakau 1881.

Jacob Weil (first half 15th century), Responsa, Hanau 1630.

Jeroḥam b. Meshullam (1st half 14th century), Toledot Adam veḤavah, Kopys 1808.

Joseph HaKohen (1496-1580), ‘Emek HaBachah, ed. M. Wiener, Leipzig 1858.

Joseph (Joslein) b. Moses (c. 1420-1488), Leket Yosher, ed. J. Freimann, Berlin 1903-4.

Joseph Yuspa Hahn (d. 1637), Joseph Omeẓ, Frankfort 1928.

Judah (Löw) b. Beẓalel (d. 1609),

Or Ḥadash, Leipzig 1859.
Derech Ḥayim, Warsaw 1833.
Netivot ‘Olam, Zitomir 1867.

Judah b. Samuel of Regensburg (the Pious; d. 1217),

Sefer Ḥasidim (attributed to him, but composed after his death). p. 320
Sefer Ḥasidim—Das Buch der Frommen (nach der Rezension in Cod. de Rossi, No. 1133), ed. J. Wistinetzki, 2nd ed., with Introd., etc., by J. Freimann, Frankfort 1924.
Sefer Ḥasidim, Lemberg 1863, 1867 (Bologna version).
Ẓevaat R. Jehudah HeḤasid, in above editions of Sefer Ḥasidim.

Judah b. Simon Ashkenazi of Tiktin (1st half 18th century), B’er Heteb, notes on Shulḥan ‘Aruch.

Klausner, Abraham (2nd half 14th century), Sefer Minhagim, Riva di Trento 1559.

Kol Bo (14th century), Lemberg 1860.

Ma’aseh Book, trans. by Moses Gaster, 2 vols., Philadelphia 1934.

Maḥzor Vitry, ed. S. Hurwitz, Berlin 1889-1893.

Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg (13th century),

Responsa, Cremona 1557.
Responsa, Lemberg 1860.
Sefer Sha‘are Teshubot Maharam bar Baruch, ed. M. Bloch, Berlin 1891.
Responsa, ed. M. Bloch, Budapest 1895.
Sefer Maḥneh Leviyah, Livorno 1819.

Meir b. Gedaliah (Maharam) of Lublin (d. 1616), Responsa, Warsaw 1881.

Meir HaKohen (end 13th century), Hagahot Maimuniot, in editions of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah.

Menaḥem of Merseburg (15th century), Nimuke R. Menaḥem, at end of Responsa of Jacob Weil, Hanau 1630.

Menaḥem Recanati (Italian rabbi, 13th-14th century, frequently quotes German authorities),

Sefer Recanati, Warsaw n. d.
Perush ‘al HaTorah, Venice 1523.
Ta‘ame HaMiẓvot, Basle 1581.

Menaḥem Ẓiyuni b. Meir of Speyer (middle 15th century), Sefer Ẓiyuni, Lemberg 1882.

Menasseh b. Israel (1604-1657), Nishmat Ḥayim, Leipzig 1862.

Miẓvat HaNashim, Venice 1552.

Mordecai b. Abraham Jaffe (c. 1530-1612), Lebush, 5 parts, Venice 1620.

Mordecai b. Hillel (13th century), Sefer HaMordecai, Riva di Trento 1559.

Moses b. Ḥanoch Altschul (16th century), Brantspiegel, Frankfort 1703.

Moses Kohen b. Eliezer (15th century), Sefer Ḥasidim Tinyana, Piotrkov 1910.

Moses Isserles (1530-1572),

Responsa, Hanau 1710.
Torat Ha‘Olah, Lemberg 1858. p. 321
Torat Ḥatat, Piotrkov 1903.
Notes in Shulḥan ‘Aruch.

Moses b. Jacob of Coucy (Ist half 13th century), Sefer Miẓvot Gadol (Semag), Kopys 1807.

Moses b. Abraham Mat (2nd half 16th century), Mateh Moshe, Warsaw 1876.

Moses b. Menaḥem of Prague (17th century), Zera‘ Kodesh, Fürth 1696.

Moses Minz (15th century), Responsa, Lemberg 1851.

Moses Taku (or of Tachau; d. c. 1290), Ketab Tamim, in Oẓar Neḥmad, III (1860), pp. 54-99.

Müller, Joel, Teshubot Ḥachme Ẓarfat veLotir, Vienna 1881.

Naftali Herz b. Jacob Elhanan (16th century), ‘Emek HaMelech, Amsterdam 1648.

Nathan b. Moses Hanover (d. c. 1663), Yeven Meẓulah, Piotrkov 1902. Sha‘are Ẓion, Jassy 1843.

Orḥot Ẓadikim, Königsberg 1859.

Rashi (Solomon b. Isaac) (1040-1105), Commentary on Bible and Talmud. Works attributed to Rashi, but composed by his pupils:

Sefer HaPardes, Constantinople 1807.
Sefer HaOrah, ed. Solomon Buber, Lemberg 1905.
Siddur Rashi, ed. Solomon Buber, Berlin 1910-11.

Raziel HaMalach, Amsterdam 1701.

Samson Ẓadok (d. 1312), Sefer Tashbeẓ, Warsaw 1924.

Shimmush Tehillim, Sabbionetta 1551.

Solomon b. Aaron Luntschitz (d. 1619), ‘Amude Shesh, Amsterdam 1772.

Solomon b. Jacob Almoli (16th century), Pitron Ḥalomot, Warsaw 1879.

Solomon Luria (1510-1573), Responsa, Fürth 1768. ‘Amude Shlomo, at end of Semag, Kopys 1807.

The Sword of Moses, ed. M. Gaster, London 1886.

Teshubot HaGeonim, ed. Jacob Musafia, Lyck 1864.

Teshubot HaGeonim, ed. Abraham Harkavy, Berlin 1887.

Ta‘am Zekenim, ed. Eliezer Ashkenazi, Frankfort 1854.

Yeḥiel of Paris, Vikuaḥ Rabenu Yeḥiel mi Paris, Thorn 1873.

Yom Tob b. Solomon Lipmann-Mülhausen (14th-15th century),

Sefer Niẓaḥon, Amsterdam 1827.
HaEshkol and Kavvanat HaTefilah, ed. Judah Kaufman, N. Y. 1927.

Ẓebi Hirsch Kaidanover (d. 1712), Kab HaYashar, Sulzbach 1805.

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Ẓedekiah b. Abraham HaRofeh (Rome, middle 13th century), Shibbole HaLeket, ed. Solomon Buber, Vilna 1886 (contains many citations from German authorities).

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