Or Yisrael [responsa, including those from]

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: $500

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author

LIPSCHUETZ, ISRAEL BEN ELIEZER

printer

The Widow Sizmann

Place

Cleves

Publication

1770

Description

FIRST EDITION. THE ONLY HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN CLEVES

references

Vinograd, Cleves 1

summary

Deals primarily with the Cleves Get controversy, a causes célèbres of the 18th century that came to involve most of the great rabbinic adjudicators of the day. The work includes opinions by Jacob Emden and Ezekiel Landau. This copy with pp.31-2 present, usually removed due to the severity of language against the Rabbinate of Frankfurt a/Main. See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp. 168-70

ff.120 (i.e.118). Lightly browned. Modern vellum. 4to

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