Meir Laniado. Derush [Bar Mitzvah sermon].

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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Lot 248

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Meir Laniado. Derush [Bar Mitzvah sermon].

Hebrew Manuscript on paper written in a neat Sephardic script with some corrections in another hand. Final leaf contains a manuscript overlay with editorial changes. pp. 16, some worming. Unbound. 8vo.

n.p.: Chol HaMoed Sukoth 1902

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

This Bar Mitzvah sermon was prepared for Hizkiyah the son of Binyamin Culnathar Nasi and discusses the wearing of Tefillin. The author R. Meir Laniado (d. 1911) was an eminent scholar and genealogist of the Laniado family. Born in Aleppo, he later settled in Jerusalem. See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005) no. 358.