JACOB JOSEPH OF POLONOYE. Tzophnath Pane’ach [commentary to Exodus]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 95

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JACOB JOSEPH OF POLONOYE. Tzophnath Pane’ach [commentary to Exodus]

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Previous owners signatures and stamps, including Yeshaiah Shochet u’Bodek of Odessa (publisher and editor of many Chassidic works) ff. 95. Some stainining and worming (mostly marginal) on title and final few leaves. Modern calf backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Koretz 18

Koretz: (Tzvi Hirsch Margoliouth) 1782

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

The third work by this outstanding disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and deep Chassidic thinker. For a short but incisive essay on the significance of the author’s thought and vision see Aaron Zeitlin, “R. Yaakov Yosef Mi-Polnoeh, Sifro Ve-Chazono” in: Bein Emunah Le’Amanut (Tel Aviv, 1980) pp. 121-8. See also Ch. Liberman, Ohel Rochel (1984) vol. III p.42; Tauber, Kiryat Sepher, vol. I p. 305 and S.H. Dresner, The Zaddik (1960)