Or Yisrael [responsa, including those from]

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 168

LIPSCHUETZ, ISRAEL BEN ELIEZER

Or Yisrael [responsa, including those from]

FIRST EDITION. THE ONLY HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN CLEVES ff.120 (i.e.118). Lightly browned. Modern vellum. 4to Vinograd, Cleves 1

Cleves: The Widow Sizmann 1770

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $500

Deals primarily with the Cleves Get controversy, a causes célèbres of the 18th century that came to involve most of the great rabbinic adjudicators of the day. The work includes opinions by Jacob Emden and Ezekiel Landau. This copy with pp.31-2 present, usually removed due to the severity of language against the Rabbinate of Frankfurt a/Main. See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp. 168-70