(The “Chavoth Yair”). Jeshurun, Isaac ben Abraham Chaim. Panim Chadashoth [Index to responsa literature].

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Lot 43

(Bacharach, Yair Chaim)

(The “Chavoth Yair”). Jeshurun, Isaac ben Abraham Chaim. Panim Chadashoth [Index to responsa literature].

FIRST EDITION. On title, signatures of former owners: R. YAIR CHAIM BACHRACH (the Chavoth Yair) and R. TEVELE SCHEUER and stamps of Ben Zion the son of R. Yaakov Ettlinger and Yivo. ff. (4),159. Marginal repairs, few stains, Contemporary boards, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 1298

Venice: Vendramin 1651

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

Yair Chaim Bacharach (1638-1702), was an outstanding German scholar with an extensive knowledge of the sciences and kabbalah. He is known for his systematic approach to Talmudic literature and Halacha based on his exhaustive knowledge of all branches of Jewish scholarship. For an extensive treatment of his life and works, see D. Kaufman, Jair Hayyim Bachrach und seine Ahren (Treves, 1894); an English version appears in JQR Vol. III (1891) pp. 292-313, 485-536. See also S. Weiner, Daath Kedoshim (St. Petersburg, 1896) p. 217. R. Tevele Scheuer (1711-1783) served as a Dayan in Frankfurt and later as Rabbi of Bamberg and Mainz. See M. Horovitz, Frankfurter Rabbinen (1972) pp. 322-23; N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim no. 5136.