Does anyone know about R. YF Perlau's works being plagiarized? Who did it, and what did they plagiarize?
More to the point, who is this "person today that continuously plagiarizes entire books even though he is well-known and, if the approbations on his books are any indication, well-respected"?
I don't understand the question about motivation. A person who plagiarizes a work gets the pretty much same thing out of it as a person who writes one from scratch, except that it's a whole lot easier. If not money then honor and prestige. Whatever. You might as well ask why R' Moshe Piza authored the work in the first place.
Maybe the title is Hamta'ah Hadashah.
"Ha-Matzah Hadasha."
surely it would be hamtzaah hadasha?
Why was there a need to write such a book so late as 1793? By then there were nekudos. I understand in Lithuania there was a tendecny to pronounce the sin and shin comparably, but I'm sure everyone knew what letter was what.
Mekor Baruch has a section in the Mevo on what you call title-page plagiarism.
Maybe the title is Hamta'ah Hadashah.
Gil | Homepage | 04.03.08 - 3:58 pm |
Perhaps we need a book detailing the differences between the tsadee and tav 
The publisher of the Aggadat Brieshis was Yaakov ben Naftoli Hertz (not Yehuda) was a Chasid and published in Zalkova versus this Naftoli Hertz who seems to have been a moderate Maskil published in Shklov. And do you want to imply that the father and son plagiarized both at the same time? Or you want to suggest that the name Naftali Hertz is the cause for their plagiarizing?
NG, It was just a thought. Although based on your information it appears I was incorrect.
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