Autograph Rabbinic Manuscript.

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 251

FRIEDMAN, MEIR YITZCHAK.

Autograph Rabbinic Manuscript.

Hebrew in a clear Aschkenazic hand, with some Yiddish, a few leaves in German. Two volumes. pp. 248, 195. Signed on vol. II, p. 43 (with the rabbi’s stamp). Ledger-style binding. Folio.

New York: 1893-95

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

Contains much halachic matter (relating to Kashruth, mikve, kidushin, etc), Talmudic novellae, sermons, homilies for Festivals and copies of letters. Several leaves with notations relating to prayers on behalf of people in need. Rabbi Meir Yitzchak Friedman was a disciple of the Ksav Sofer of Pressburg, R. Hillel Lichtenstein of Kolomea and R. Chaim Sofer. Upon emigration to America he served as Rabbi of Chevra Kadisha Talmud Torah in New York during second half of 19th-century. Toward the end of his life he immigrated to Jerusalem where he produced his work Me’orei Yitzchak (1910). Apparently, no part of the present manuscript has been published.