Katzenellenbogen, David Tevele. Mayan Mei Nifto’ach [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth]

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 382
(RUSSIA)

Katzenellenbogen, David Tevele. Mayan Mei Nifto’ach [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth]

FIRST EDITION ff.(2), 48. Contemporary marbled boards. Folio Friedberg, Mem 1596; Shmeruk 152

(St.) Petersburg: The Red Agitator Press 1923

Est: $500 - $700
The author (1850-1930), was appointed Chief Rabbi of St. Petersburg in 1908, a position he held until his death. Due to the respect he received from the authorities, Katzenellenbogen was allowed to print this text, one of the very last traditional works of Hebrew scholarship published under the new Communist regime. See S.Y. Zevin, Sophrim Usepharim