BRODA, ABRAHAM OF PRAGUE

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00

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

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Lot 206

BRODA, ABRAHAM OF PRAGUE

Printed wedding invitation for the daughter of R. Abraham Broda and her Chathan, Yissachar Ber the son of Gabriel ben Yechiel Michal Weiner. Written in an unusual poetic style, with Autograph Inscription and Signature of R. Abraham Broda. Addressed in a professional scribal hand with honorific titles to his “Mechutan,” R. Heschel, Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Szebrezin. With R. Heschel’s name, with a slightly different title, in the same scribal hand, written in the address panel fold on the verso

Prague: 1706

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $18,000

Exceptionally uncommon. R. Abraham Broda (1640-1717), a brilliant rabbinic scholar, was appointed head of the Yeshiva of Prague in 1693. He later served as Rabbi of Metz and Frankfurt where he also established outstanding Yeshivoth attracting first-rate students. His talmudic work Eshel Avraham was published posthumously by his grandson in Frankfurt in 1747. R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz, who studied under some of R. Abraham Broda’s disciples writes in his approbation to the book, ”R. Avraham was remarkably successful...most contemporary scholars of reknown were his disciples.”