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Auction 12 · Lot 306
SOFER, SHIMON
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- $8,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
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Publication
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Description
(Chief Rabbi of Cracow, son of the “Chatham Sofer.” b.1820-d.1883). Collection of various novellae, responsa, sermons and letters from the Mattersdorf and Cracow periods. Most Autograph, some Signed, in Hebrew. Including:
I: Autograph responsa, Signed in Hebrew to Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Jacob, Rabbi of Leavenworth in the USA, concerning a divorce.
II: Responsa to his brother, R. Abraham Samuel Sofer (“Kethav Sofer”).
III: Sermons on Repentance and “Shovavim”; a lengthly sermon for Shabath Ha’gadol; the Sabbath preceeding Passover; sermon for Tekiath Shofar.
IV: Novellae on rtactate Kidushin; on “kidusha b’tamra” (betrothal with a date) and “mekadesh be’milva” (betrothal with a loan) and others on Tractates Gittin, Kethuboth and Pesachim.
summary
WITH: SOFER, AKIVA (SCHREIBER). (Pressburg/Jerusalem). Collection of c.13 letters and one from his son, R. Abraham, concerning monetary and family matters.
Together, c.(47) leaves. 4to and larger
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