Va’yakam Eyduth Be’ya’acov-Psak al Agunah [responsa and eulogy]

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

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POLLACK, JACOB.

Va’yakam Eyduth Be’ya’acov-Psak al Agunah [responsa and eulogy]

Second Edition. Title within a typographical border. ff. 43. Dampstained. Recent moroco-backed boards. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Frankfurt am Main 362

Frankfurt am Main: Anton Heinschtadt 1718

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $250

The work actually contains two works. The first: responsa by Jacob Pollack and Judah Loewe (the MaHaRa”L of Prague), concerning an Agunah (“chained woman”), first published in Prague in 1595. The econd: a eulogy for Akiva Ginzburg of Frankfurt by Judah Loewe, first published in Prague in 1598. The editor, Moses Darom, Dayan of Frankfurt am Main, combined the two works as he found them bound together in his ancestoral library.