Shnayer Leiman

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Shnayer Z. Leiman (born Nov. 3, 1941), known professionally as Sid Z. Leiman, S.Z. Leiman, or in his publications written in Hebrew as (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן ליימן), is an American scholar specializing in Jewish studies. His areas of concentration have been on the Bible; Rabbinic literature; Medieval and early modern Jewish history; and to a lesser extent on Jewish ethics and modern Orthodox Judaism. He has lectured across the United States on academic and religious topics during the past 50 years and at Jewish heritage sites in Europe since 1997. He is a noted bibliophile with a personal collection of 30,000 Judaic books and thousands of historical artifacts. Leiman has been called a Hebrew: ״יודע ספר״ ― signifying his "encyclopedic knowledge of traditional and scholarly Jewish books from the biblical period to the present day" ― and the "Sherlock Holmes of Jewish History".