Haim Hezekiah Medini (CHaCha”M). Na’im Zemiroth [religious poetry and Piyutim recited by the Krymchaks].

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Haim Hezekiah Medini (CHaCha”M). Na’im Zemiroth [religious poetry and Piyutim recited by the Krymchaks].

Hebrew text. Final page with hymn in honor of Czar Alexander II. ff. 26 (additional leaf from another work inserted between ff. 24-5.) Previous owners’ marks, few tears affecting text, stained. Contemporary boards, worn. 12mo.

Warsaw: Kelter 1885

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

The fame of the author (1832-1904) rests upon the Sedei Chemed, his monumental halachic encyclopedia. Born in Jerusalem, Medini moved to Constantinople and from 1867 to 1899 was Rabbi of Krasobazar (now Bilohirsk, or, Belogorsk) in the Ukrainian / Russian Crimea. Medini was especially beloved by the Krymchaks, the indigenous, Rabbinate Jewish community of the Crimean Peninsula.