Yisrael Ephraim Fishel Sofer. Afsei Aretz al HaTorah [commentary on Bereishith and Shemoth]

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 74

(BREUER, SALOMON).

Yisrael Ephraim Fishel Sofer. Afsei Aretz al HaTorah [commentary on Bereishith and Shemoth]

<<First edition.>> Limited edition (see introduction). Two titles. First title with gold lettering. <<The Rabbi Dr. Salomon Breuer copy>> , with the Author’s gilt-stamped inscription on upper cover: “Minchah Sheluchah LehaRav HaGaon HaTzadik …Shlomo Breuer.” With his stamp “Dr. S. B.” on the title-page. ff. (10), 87, 97. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Large 4to.

Munkacz: Kohn and Klein 1899

Est: $800 - $1,220

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Salomon Breuer (1850-1926) married the youngest daughter of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch. He served as Rabbi of Papa, Hungary, until 1888, whereupon he succeeded his recently deceased father-in-law as the leading community rabbi of Frankfurt a/Main and so in essence, became the titular head of German Orthodoxy. The author (1822-99), was Rabbi of Nanash, Hungary, and a prime disciple of the Chassam Sofer, the Yismach Moshe and R. Chaim Sanzer. Rabbi Breuer studied in Pressburg under the Kessav Sofer and was thus well acquainted with many of the disciples of the Chassam Sofer.