Mishnayoth Seder Nezikin. With commentary by Chanoch Albeck (?)

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 341
(MISHNAH)

Mishnayoth Seder Nezikin. With commentary by Chanoch Albeck (?)

FIRST EDITION pp.(8),506. Original cloth. Sm. 4to

Tel Aviv: Mossad Bialik-D’vir 1953

Est: $250 - $300
The authorship of the commentary to this edition of Mishnayoth Seder Nezikin was subject to a little-known dispute between two prominent scholars. The professed author, Chanoch Albeck, professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University, was sued in Jerusalem District Court by Dr. Mordechai Margalioth, another leading Talmudic scholar, accusing him of plagiarizing his own commentary. Consequently, the half-title of this volume bears a pasted Publisher’s Notice noting that the question of identity of the author of the commentary is currently under adjudication in the Jerusalem District Court