Meir Arak Shailoth Uteshuvoth Imrei Yosher. Part I. Munkatch, 1913. * Bound With: Part II. Cracow, 1925.

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Lot 113
(FROMER, ARYEH TZVI).

Meir Arak Shailoth Uteshuvoth Imrei Yosher. Part I. Munkatch, 1913. * Bound With: Part II. Cracow, 1925.

Two parts bound in one volume. <<THE R. ARYEH TZVI FROMER COPY>> with his stamp and notes on the front flyleaf and with extensive autograph marginal notations throughout. Opening torn with loss with taped repairs. Later boards. Folio.

Est: $2,000 - $2,500
R. Aryeh Tzvi Fromer (1884-1943), know as the Koziglover Rov, was renowned in his generation as one of the greatest erudite, analytical minds in Poland. Indeed the Brisker Rav, R. Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik, crowned him as “Gadol HaDor.” A disciple of the Avnei Nezer of Sochatchov, R. Aryeh Tzvi Fromer served as Rabbi of Koziglov, Zaveirtza, Sosnovtza, after which he was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Chachmei Lublin following the famed R. Meir Shapiro. His was the author of Siach HaSadeh and Eretz Tzvi.