of Salant. Da’ath Mordechai [responsa and novellae]. Part I.

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RABINOWITZ, MORDECHAI YITZCHAK ISAAC.

of Salant. Da’ath Mordechai [responsa and novellae]. Part I.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. 106. Ex-library, stained toward end. Later boards, with original printed wrappers bound in, worn. Folio .

Keidan (Kedainiai), Lithuania: S. Movshowitz 1939

Est: $150 - $200

PRICE REALIZED $150

On pp. 6-7 the author records a Halachic discussion he had with R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk and R. Itzel of Ponivezh. Part II of this work was published by Jerusalem’s Mossad Harav Kook in 1959, the introduction of which notes that almost all copies of Part I of Da’ath Mordechai were destroyed during the savage Holocaust years.