Haim Hezekiah Medini (CHaCha”M). Na’im Zemiroth [religious poetry and Piyutim recited by the Krymchaks]

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Haim Hezekiah Medini (CHaCha”M). Na’im Zemiroth [religious poetry and Piyutim recited by the Krymchaks]

Hebrew text. Final page with hymn in honor of Czar Alexander II. ff. 26 (additional leaf from another work inserted between ff. 24-5.) Previous owners’ marks, few tears affecting text, stained. Contemporary boards, worn. 12mo.

Warsaw: Kelter 1885

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $600

The fame of the author (1832-1904) rests upon his monumental halachic encyclopedia, Sdei Chemed. Born in Jerusalem, he moved to Constantinople and from 1867 to 1899 was Rabbi of Krasobazar (now Bilohirsk, or, Belogorsk) in the Ukranian / Russian Crimea. Medini was especially beloved by the Krymchaks, the indigenous, Rabbinate Jewish community of the Crimean Peninsula.