Mikvah Yisrael [Halachic polemic]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $450

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author

SALTERO, JUDAH BEN MOSES OF FANO.

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1607

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. The Eliezer Silver copy (founder of the U.S. branch of Agudath Israel)

references

Vinograd, Venice 1031; Habermann, di Gara 250

summary

Concerns a heated dispute with international ramifications over the ritual legality of the Mikve (ritual bath) in Rovigo, Italy. See A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958) pp.420-29; Carmilly-Weinberger pp.160-1

ff. 85. Colsely shaved, occasional marginal worming. Later boards, worn. Sm.4to

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