Sephath Emeth...Mi Lashem Eilai [polemic concerning Eliezer Ben Yehuda's diatribes against the Jerusalem Rabbinate]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 148
(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Sephath Emeth...Mi Lashem Eilai [polemic concerning Eliezer Ben Yehuda's diatribes against the Jerusalem Rabbinate]

With stamp of Kollel Ungarn-Shomrei Ha-Chomoth pp. 4. Slight tears not affectinng text. Large folio

Jerusalem: 1894

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $500
Endorsed by Rabbis Samuel Salant and Yaakov Saul Elishar, the Ashkenazic Beth Din headed by R. Chaim Yaakov Shapiro, Saul Elchanan Shaulson and Zevulun ben R. Tzvi Hirsch. * With: A copy of the original article that caused the furor and a protest signed by nineteen notable members of the Osterreichisch, Ungarisch, Mahren Kollel in Jerusalem including Yitzchak of Prague a disciple of the Chatham Sofer, Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld, Dovid Weber, Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, etc