Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentaries of R. Nathan Shapiro, R. Samson of Ostropoia, R. Ezekiel Landau of Prague and others

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Lot 131

(HAGADAH)

Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentaries of R. Nathan Shapiro, R. Samson of Ostropoia, R. Ezekiel Landau of Prague and others

Stamp on title and final leaf of R. Menachem Mendel Hager of Obervishiva, the son of R. Yisrael of Vishnitz ff. 2, 14, 2. Some browning and staining. Later marbled boards. 4to Yaari 2673; Yudlov 707

(Lemberg ?): (ca. 1830)

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

RARE. Yaari saw only one copy in the Floersheim collection. This Hagadah has no date or place of pubication on the title, Yudlov tentatively dated it based upon the name of the publisher Mordecai Tzvi of Zbarizh. R. Menachem Mendel Hager of Obervishiva,(1886-1941) was known as the greatest scholar of the Vishnitzer Dynasty. His works were published posthumously under the title Torath Menachem and Sheerith Menachem