KATZENELLENBOGEN, DAVID TEVELE. Mayan Mei Nifto’ach [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth]

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Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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KATZENELLENBOGEN, DAVID TEVELE. Mayan Mei Nifto’ach [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth]

FIRST EDITION. Scattered scholarly marginalia ff.(2), 47, (1). Browned and brittle. Contemporary marbled boards, chipped. Folio C. Shmeruk, Jewish Publications in the Soviet Union (1961) no. 152

(St.) Petersburg: The Red Agitator Press 1923

Est: $150 - $200

The author (1850-1930) was appointed Chief Rabbi of St. Petersburg in 1908, a position he held until his death. Due to the uncommon respect he received from the Soviet authorities, Katzenellenbogen was allowed to print this text, one of the very last traditional works of Hebrew scholarship published under the Communist regime