Sefer Toledot Ḥakhme Yiʹsraʼel
Subtitle: yekhalkel toldot ḥakhmenu, morenu umeʼorenu ha-gedolim, toledot sifrehem ba-Torah uba-ḥokhmah, ṿe-toldot ha-liṭeraṭur he-ʻivrit bi-khelal mi-yeme ha-teḳufah ha-rishonah ba-rabanut ʻad yeme ha-dor ha-aḥaron ha-zeh
By: meʼet Ḳalman Shulman
Contributors: Gurland, Ḥayyim Jonah, 1843-1890; Halberstam, S. J. (Solomon Joachim), 1832-1900; Rom, Devorah, -1903; Rom, Menaḥem Gavriʼel; Histadrut ha-kelalit shel ha-ʻovdim ha-ʻIvrim be-Erets-Yiśraʼel. Ṿaʻadat ha-tarbut
Edition: Totsaʼah sheniyah ʻim hosafot ṿe-tiḳunim.
Publisher: Bi-defus ṿe-hotsaʼot ha-almanah ṿeha-aḥim Rom
Published: 1879
Place of publication: Ṿilna; 1879
Language: heb; yid; lat
Subjects: Rabbis; Biography; Jewish scholars; Rabbinical literature; History and criticism; Hebrew literature; Rabbins; Biographies; Savants juifs; Littérature rabbinique; Histoire et critique; Littérature hébraïque
Other titles: Toldot Hahme Israel. Biografii Evreĭskih literatorov. Tom 1. Sochinenie K. Shulʹmana. S Vilenskago izdani︠a︡ 1872 goda. 1879; Toldot Ḥakhme Yiʹsraʼel
Notes: Title romanized.

T.p. verso (bottom) reads: "Vilʹna. Tipografii︠a︡ Vdovy i bratʹev Romm". (Then address of typography: "Zhmudskiĭ pereulok doma # 327 i 328").

Censor's approval on t.p. verso: "Dozvoleno tsenzuroi︠u︡ 9 Avgusta 1878 goda. Vilʹna."

Same text in Russian on t.p. & t.p. verso in vol. 3-4, except for the date.

Each volume has separate t.p.

Biographies of rabbis and Jewish scholars, including bibliographic references.

Includes a foreword and postscript by Shelomoh Zalman Ḥayim Halbershṭam to volume 2; and additional material supplied by Ḥ. Y. Gurland in volume 3.

Hebrew Bibliography, no. 000169033

Hill, 749

Text in Hebrew, Yiddish and Latin.