Shem HaGedolim
Hagahot Menachem Tzion
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Krengel’s footnotes to Shem HaGedolim.
Hagahot She'erit Tzion
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Krengel’s additions to his Hagahot Menachem Tzion.
Kuntres Peleitat Sefarim
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Krengel’s addendum to Maarekhet Sefarim, with a bibliography of additional works not mentioned in Shem HaGedolim.
Maarekhet Sefarim
Second volume of the Chida’s Shem HaGedolim, structured as a bibliography of rabbinic works.
About Shem HaGedolim
Shem HeGedolim (“The Names of the Great Ones,” based on I Chronicles 17:8) is the main historical work of the Chida (Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai). It consists of two sections; the first contains biographies of sages from the period of the geonim through the period of the Chida, and the second is a bibliography of rabbinic works, among them lesser-known manuscripts that the Chida discovered in the course of his travels. The Chida composed Shem HaGedolim while in a quarantine camp in Livorno, Italy.
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