(et al). Divrei Chachamim [various opinions concerning the Halachic implications of the International Date-Line, raised by R. Chaim Zelig Slonimsky]

WEISSMAN, MORDECHAI TZVI.

Isaac Goldman

Warsaw

1876

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Presentation copy inscribed by SAMUEL MOHLIVER to the London Dayan Dr. Asher on front free-endpaper, with extensive autograph marginal notes. Map on p.37.

Freidberg, Daled-277

Samuel Mohliver was an early member of the Chovevei Zion movement in Russia and founding father of Religious Zionism. The present work bears lengthy autograph marginal notes, where he notes the Editors’ errors concerning his oral remarks on the subject. This was the first comprehensive discussion of the Internatinal Date-Line in Halacha. For a later acrimonious polemic on this issue see, Ch. Zimmerman, Agan Ha’sahar (1958) and, M.M. Kasher, Kav Ha’taarich Hayisraeli (1974)