JACOB JOSEPH OF POLONOYE. Tzophnath Pane’ach [commentary to Exodus]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

(CHASSIDISM)

printer

(Tzvi Hirsch Margoliouth)

Place

Koretz

Publication

1782

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Previous owners signatures and stamps, including Yeshaiah Shochet u’Bodek of Odessa (publisher and editor of many Chassidic works)

references

Vinograd, Koretz 18

summary

The third work by this outstanding disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and deep Chassidic thinker. For a short but incisive essay on the significance of the author’s thought and vision see Aaron Zeitlin, “R. Yaakov Yosef Mi-Polnoeh, Sifro Ve-Chazono” in: Bein Emunah Le’Amanut (Tel Aviv, 1980) pp. 121-8. See also Ch. Liberman, Ohel Rochel (1984) vol. III p.42; Tauber, Kiryat Sepher, vol. I p. 305 and S.H. Dresner, The Zaddik (1960)

ff. 95. Some stainining and worming (mostly marginal) on title and final few leaves. Modern calf backed boards. Folio

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