Schneur Zalman of Liadi. Sepher Likutei Amarim - Tanya. Edited by Tzvi Elimelech Kalisch, with biographical section entitled Toldoth HaTanya.
AUCTION 50 |
Thursday, February 24th,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art
Lot 73
(CHASSIDISM)
Schneur Zalman of Liadi. Sepher Likutei Amarim - Tanya. Edited by Tzvi Elimelech Kalisch, with biographical section entitled Toldoth HaTanya.
Munkacz: Grafia 1943
Est: $500 - $700
The titles and the final section were newly set, while the text itself is an offset of the Vilna edition. With additional approbations by the Dayanim of Munkatch. The final 24 page section contains not only a biography of the author but also a general history of the Chassidic movement and related controversies
One of the last books published in Munkatch. Unknown to Kiryat Sepher vol. 25-26 on Hebrew printing in Munkatch, similarly unrecorded by Landau, Oroth Me’Ophel: Bibliography of Jewish Religious Books Published in Europe 1933-1945 (1957)