Mevaser Tov ["Harbinger of Good Tidings": two sermons upon the victory of Francis I's Austrian Imperial Army quelling of a rebellion in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]

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FLECKELES, ELAZAR

Mevaser Tov ["Harbinger of Good Tidings": two sermons upon the victory of Francis I's Austrian Imperial Army quelling of a rebellion in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]

Title in German and Hebrew. Text in Hebrew in rabbinic type. pp. 16. Lightly browned. Modern wrappers Vinograd, Prague 1172

Prague: Schollischen Buchdruckerei 1821

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $850

Two introductions appear in this booklet, one from the publisher Moses ben Harav Haga'on Zerach Eidlitz; the other from R. Elazar Fleckeles thanking his "mechutan" (relation by marriage) Eidlitz for undertaking the publication. R. Elazar Fleckeles (1754-1826) succeeded R. Ezekiel Landau as Chief Rabbi of Prague. He is most famous for his responsa "Teshuvah me-Ahavah" (Prague, 1809-1821). See EJ, Vol. VI, col. 1340.