Pachad Yitzchak [Aggadic lore concerning the fall of Jerusalem]

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 24

CHAYUT, ISAAC

Pachad Yitzchak [Aggadic lore concerning the fall of Jerusalem]

FIRST EDITION. Title within ornamental cartouche. Fold-out pictographic poem and diagram of the Land of Israel at the midpoint of the Earth ff.18, 48 (of 53) lacking 5 leaves toward end. Few marginal repairs and stains. Later boards. Sm.4to Vinograd, Lublin 27; Mehlman 914; not in Adams. The British Library copy similarly imperfect, lacking the title-page (Zedner 363)

Lublin: Eliezer b. Isaac & Son 1573

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,250

Isaac Chayut was a scion of a branch of the Chassidei Provence who later settled in Bohemia. He was appointed Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Prague in 1584. His contemporary, David Gans, commendes him as one of the most praise-worthy rabbis of the generation. With ownership signature of R. Mordechai (of Tiktin), son-in-law of Tzvi Hirsch Berlin on verso of final blank, who writes “Belonging to my father-in-law and uncle who has been accepted as Rabbi of Dubno, Poland [and] who is now Rabbi of London...” The significance of which proves Tzvi Hirsch Berlin was already in London before receiving the offer to succeed his brother in Dobno. Duschinsky is uncertain whether Berlin had already received the call to London at this time. See C. Duschinsky, The Rabbinate of the Great Synagogue (1921) p. 6. T. Y. Michaelson in Tzvi La’tzadic (1904) p. 149, states Berlin was called to Dubno in 1755