TWERSKY, MORDECHAI DOV OF HORNOSTEIPEL. Emek Chochmah [discourses on the weekly sidrah]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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TWERSKY, MORDECHAI DOV OF HORNOSTEIPEL. Emek Chochmah [discourses on the weekly sidrah]

Second edition with twelve pages of additional material including letters from the author to his grandson. With signature and stamps of R. Ya'akov Yoseph Weiss, THE SPINKER REBBE (1916-1988) when resident in Selische ff. 4, pp. 158, 2. Some browning. Contemporary boards. 8vo

Satu-Mare: M. L. Hirsch 1928

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $400

The publisher, Dayan Chaim Halberstam of Satmar, was candidate for the Rabbinate in opposition to R. Joel Teitelbaum. The later eventually won the election after a bitterly contested election. The author, the Hornosteipler Rebbe, was the son-in-law of R. Chaim Halberstam of Sanz