ROSEN, JOSEPH OF ROGATCHOV.

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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ROSEN, JOSEPH OF ROGATCHOV.

Group of five autograph postcards Signed, all in Hebrew, addressed on verso in Russian and English. Four written to Rabbi Yehoshua Nemoytin, Rabbi of Velizh (Vitebsk area), replete with halachic novellae. One to R. David Potash in Tel Aviv, requesting assistance in taking care of his unfortunate, weak daughter (who lost her husband) and wishes to return to Eretz Israel. In an uncommon show of emotion the Rogatchover signs this letter from “your friend who writes while his knees tremble due to the calamity of my daughter.”

St. Petersburg-Dvinsk: 1918-1927

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $10,000

Rabbi Joseph Rosen (1858-1936), known as “the Rogatchover” after his birthplace of Rogatchov, Belarus, (although later he served as rabbi in Dvinsk, Latvia), was perhaps the greatest Talmudic genius of the 20th century. He had a remarkable ability for penetrating, original, analytic conceptualizations, however, his style of writing can be cryptic with short references to the entire Talmudic literature. He created an entirely new halachic vocabulary to convey his profoundly original thoughts.