Jeshurun, Isaac ben Abraham Chaim. Panim Chadashoth [Index to Responsa Literature]

An early forerunner of Otzer ha-Poskim, and of the “Responsa Project” at Bar Ilan University, Panim Chadashoth provided a useful index for use by the halachists of the day, arranged as it was according to the order of the Shulchan Aruch. R. Eliezer Bergman (1799-1852), former owner of this copy, was an important figure in the early settlement of Eretz Israel. A native of Heidenheim, and married to the daughter of Mendel Rosenbaum, Treasurer of King Leopold of Bavaria, Bergman and his family emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1834. He was instrumental in establishing Kollel Ho”d (Holland ve-Deutshland). He authored a volume BeHar Yeira'eh, published posthumously by his descendants. Bergman served for many years as an emissary on behalf of the Sephardic community of Eretz Israel. He died in Berlin in 1852 while on a fundraising mission and was buried there. In 1972 his remains were reinterred on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. See A.L. Frumkin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim, Part III (1929), p. 254; Giora Pozielov, Chachmeihem shel Arba Arei ha-Kodesh (2001), pp. 274, 294, 377, 388; N. Friedmann, Otzer ha-Rabbanim, no. 2455; Yaari, Shluchei Eretz Israel, pp. 650