Significant collection of Broadsides: eulogies

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 120

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Significant collection of Broadsides: eulogies

C.100 Eulogies for Prominent Rabbis and Lay Leaders

Jerusalem: v.p. 1920s-1930s

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

Among the famous rabbis included in this important archive are: Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Meir Simcha Hakohen, Issachar Dov Rokeach (Belzer Rebbe), Moses Mordecai Epstein, Meir Yechiel Halevi (Ostrovtzer Rebbe), Joseph Rosen (Rogatchover Iluy), R. Meir Atlas (father-in-law of Elchanan Wasserman), Chaim Sonnenfeld, Israel Meir Kagan (Chofetz Chaim), Elijah Halevi (of Pruzhna), Isaac Jeruchem Diskin, Aryeh Pomeranchik, Isaac Heine (son-in-law of Gerer Rebbe), Yosef Rabbi (brother-in-law of Rabbi Kook), and Ezra Munk (of Berlin). Among lay leaders, included are eulogies for Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Nehemiah Lamport (after whom Yeshiva University's Lamport Auditorium was named), Professor Jacob Isaac De Haan (victim of political assassination), etc