Sol Scharfstein

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Esther

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Title: the Book of Esther ✡ מגלת אסתר • Translation and Commentary by Sol Scharfstein.
Illustrations by Arthur Friedman
Date: ⓒ 1987
Publisher: Hoboken NJ (U.S.A.): KTAV Publishing House
Contents: The Scroll of Esther w/ blessings; colour illustrations. Introduction. – Purim Laws / Purim Facts.
Language: Hebrew and English
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Images: Back Cover, Front Cover
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany

Comments: Softcover large octavo, 47 pp. (Masoretic) Hebrew text on right, translation on left side of double page. Commentaries in footnotes. – Introduction (1 p.) – Appendix: Purim Laws & Facts (4 pp)

Torah - Five Books of Moses

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Title: The Five Books of Moses ✡ חמשה חומשי תורה • An Easy–to–Read–TORAH Translation by Sol Scharfstein
Date: ⓒ 2005
Publisher: Jersey City NJ (U.S.A.): KTAV Publishing House
Contents: Five Books of Moses • Dedications & In Memoriam, About the Translation, Introduction. – All About the Torah (illustrated): Torah History / Torah Scholarship / Two Torah Holidays / Torah Ornaments and Setting / Torah Ceremonies and Honors / Inside the Torah. Appendix: Index.
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany
Comments: Hardcover large octavo, sewn binding, 534 pp. Torah text subdivided into Parashot (weekly reading sections) and presented in single column; no extras. All books are introduced. The idiomatic translation is meant be be read for all ages and easy to understand.
“All About Torah“ is a lexikon (31 pp) and provides all kinds of useful general information with lots of illustrations.

Book of Haftarot

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Title: The Book of Haftarot ✡ ספר הפטרות • For Shabbat, Festivals, and Feast Days •
An Easy–to–Read Translation with Commentary by Sol Scharfstein
Date: ⓒ 2006
Publisher: Jersey City NJ (U.S.A.): KTAV Publishing House
Contents: The Haftarot (= Conclusion / Prophet Readings) • Dedications & In Memoriam, Introduction, About the Haftarah. – All About the Haftarot (illustrated): The Tanak / Masorah and Masoretes / The Pilgrimage Festivals / Ancient Warfare / The Hebrew Calendar. Appendix: Index.
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany

Comments: Hardcover large octavo, sewn binding, 454 pp. Haftarah texts subdivded into Parashot (weekly reading sections of Torah) and presented in single column; no extras. All books are introduced. The idiomatic / easy to understand translation is the sequel to “The Five Books of Moses“.
“All About the Haftarot“ is a lexikon (30 pp) and provides all kinds of useful general information, with photographs and colour drawings.

The Haftarot– texts in this book:

Joshua: 1:1–18 • 2:1–4 • 3:5–7 • 5:2 to 6:1.27
Judges: 4:4 to 5:31 • 11:1–33 • 13:2–25
1 Samuel: 1:1 to 2:20 • 11:14 to 12:32 • 15:1–34 • 20:28–42
2 Samuel: 6:1 to 7:17 • 22:1–51
1 Kings: 1:1–31 • 3:15 to 4:1 • 5:26 to 6:13 • 7:40–50 • 7:51 to 8:21 • 8:54–66 • 9:1 • 18:1–39 • 18:46 to 19:31
2 Kings: 2:1–12 • 4:1–37 • 4:42 to 5:19 • 7:3–20• 11:17 to 12:17 • 23.1–9. 21–25
Isaiah: 1:1-27 • 6:1 to 7:6 • 9:5–6 • 10:32 to 12:6 • 27:12 to 28:13 • 29:22–23 • 40:1–26 • 40:27 to 41:16 • 42:5 to 43:10 • 43:21 to 44:23 • 49:14 to 51:3 • 51:12 to 52:12 • 54:1 to 56:8 • 57:14 to 58:14 • 60:1–22 • 61:10 to 63:9 • 66:1–23

Jeremiah: 1:1–23 • 2:4–28 • 3:4 • 4:1–2 • 7:21 to 8:3 • 8:13 to 9:23 • 16:19 to 17:14 • 31:2–20 • 32:6–27 • 34:18–22 • 46:13–28
Ezekiel: 1:1–18 • 3:12 • 22:1–19 • 28:15 to 29:31 • 36:16–38 • 37:1–6. 15–28 • 38:8 to 39:16 • 43:10-27 • 44:15–31 • 45:10 to 46:18
Hosea: 2:1–22 • 7:18–20 • 14:2–10
Joel: 2:15–27
Amos: 2:6 to 3:8 • 9:1–15
Obadiah
Micah: 5:6 to 6:8 • 7:18–20
Habakkuk: 2:20 to 3:19
Zechariah: 2:14 to 4:7 • 14:1–21
Malachi: 1:1 to 2:7 • 3:4–27

Torah and Commentary

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Title: Torah and Commentary • The Five Books of Moses ✡ חמשה חומשי תורה •
Translation, Rabbinic and Contemporary Commentary by Sol Scharfstein
Date: ⓒ 2008
Publisher: Jersey City NJ (U.S.A.): KTAV Publishing House
Contents: Five Books of Moses w/ Commentary • Dedications & In Memoriam; Introduction / About the Translation / I Know Five / – All About the Torah (illustrated): Torah History / Torah Scholarship / Two Torah Holidays / Torah Ornaments and Setting / Torah Ceremonies and Honors / Inside the Torah. Appendixes: Spiritual Leaders and Torah Commentators (from Yohanan ben Zakkai to The Gaon of Wilna) / Bibliography / Biographical Vignettes / Index.
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany

Comments: Hardcover quarto, sewn binding, 570 pp. Torah text subdivded into Parashot (weekly reading sections) and presented in single column; comments. All books are introduced. “All About Torah“ is a lexikon (15 pp) and provides all kinds of useful general information with lots of illustrations. – Biographies of 17 Spiritual Leaders & Torah Commentators (illustrated, 34 pp); Bibliography (3 pp); Biographical Vignettes of 14 Scholars incl. Author; Index (8 pp.)

Gallery of translations by Sol Scharfstein

From left: ❶ Torah and Commentary; ❷ Torah; ❸ Book of Haftarot.

BIOGRAMM

Sol {Shenash} Shlomo ben Asher SCHARFSTEIN, one of America's leading Jewish authors, scholars and educators, died Dec. 5, 2009 in Livingston, NJ, at age 88. He was President of KTAV Publishing House, Inc., a publisher of Hebrew and English textbooks, scholarly Judaica, and prayer books that educated the world-wide Jewish community for three generations. Sol Scharfstein has written and created more than 100 textbooks and educational devices with subjects including the Hebrew language, history, prayer, the Bible and children's stories. His first book, Haveri, published in 1954, was the first Hebrew language textbook published in full color and has sold over 1 million copies. It is still in print. His latest book, which has received much critical acclaim, is The Five Books of Moses: An Easy-to-Read Torah Translation. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University for his contribution to Jewish education. Shenash Scharfstein was born in 1921 to Fannie and Asher Scharfstein in Dinivetz, Russia and came to America at the age of six months. He graduated Stuyvesant High School in New York in 1939 and enrolled in New York University. His studies were interrupted when he enlisted in the army during World War II. He served in the European Theater of Operations from 1941-1943. Scharfstein graduated from New York University in 1945 with a B. S. in Chemistry. He also graduated Herzliah Hebrew Teachers College. He joined the family business, KTAV Publishing House in 1945. Scharfstein headed a delegation of Jewish publishers to the Soviet Union in 1981 during the Cold War. This was the first exhibit of Jewish publications since the establishment of the Communist regime in 1917. Scharfstein married Edythe Shore in 1946, who survives him. In addition to his wife Edythe, he is survived by his children Alan (Karen), Janet (Jay), Joel (Deborah) and brother Bernie (Barbara) and seven grandchildren.

Text taken from an obituary in: The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2009 (with small changes)


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