David Tevele Katzenellenbogen. Mayan Mei Nifto’ach [novellae to Talmud Tractate Yevamoth].

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David Tevele Katzenellenbogen. Mayan Mei Nifto’ach [novellae to Talmud Tractate Yevamoth].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Some marginalia folio 7. ff. (2), 47, (1). Ex-library, browned and brittle. marginalia on f.7. Contemporary boards, spine worn. Folio. C. Shmeruk, Jewish Publications in the Soviet Union (1961) no. 152.

(St.) Petersburg: The Red Agitator Press 1923

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $550

The author (1850-1930) was appointed Chief Rabbi of St. Petersburg in 1908, a position he held until his death. Due to the uncommon respect he received from the Soviet authorities, Katzenellenbogen was allowed to publish this text, one of the very last traditional works of Hebrew scholarship issued under the Communist regime.