YUDELEWITZ, ABRAHAM AARON. Av Bechochmah.

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

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Lot 94

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

YUDELEWITZ, ABRAHAM AARON. Av Bechochmah.

Expanded edition. pp. 128. Original boards. 4to. See Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 676.

New York: Oriium Press 1927

Est: $700 - $900

Controversy surrounding a responsa by ABRAHAM AARON YUDELEWITZ, who allowed a messenger to perform Chalitzah for a woman living in Kiev while her deceased husband's brother lived in New York. This edition includes the related opinion of a host of opponents to this decision including: R. Joseph Rosen of Dvinsk (the Rogatchover Gaon), his son-in-law R. Abba David Goldfein of Moscow, R. Isser Zalman Meltzer of Slutsk and R. Shlomo Yoseph Zevin of Novozipkov. Afterwards, other Rabbis joined the fray including R. Chaim Ozer Grodzienski, the Chofetz Chaim, R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein of Slabodka, etc. For a biography of Rabbi Yudelewitz (1850-1930), see Moshe Tzvi Berger in Yeshurun Vol. II, pp. 686-93.