Shlom Esther [commentary on the Scroll of Esther]

(TREVES), ISAAC BEN MORDECHAI GERSHON

(Solomon & Joseph Yavetz

Constantinople

c. 1575)

FIRST EDITION. THE RABBI NACHUM DOV-BER FRIEDMAN OF SADIGURA COPY, with his alternating stamp on titles and book-label on front pastedown

Vinograd, Const. 254; Yaari, Const. 225; Mehlman 663; not in Adams

Isaac Treves was a respected member of the Venice Beth Din, author of Mashbith Milchamoth concerning the controversy in connection with the mikvah in Rovigo; Likutei Shoshanim containing his commentary to the Book of Malachi as well as other works. He resided for many years in Safed and was a disciple of Moses Alsheich. For more than thirty years he acted as proof-reader for various printing-houses in Venice and worked especially closely with those scholars who stemmed from Safed. The wide connections of the extended Treves Family allowed him to travel broadly, hence in the present work he states he gathered commentaries from rabbinic manuscripts from loacales in France and Castile. See the exchange of articles concerning Isaac Treves between I. Sonne and D. Tamar in Kiryath Sepher, vol. XXXIII (1958) pp.377-8 and vol. XXXIV (1959) p. 136