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(Zechariah Mendel of Jaroslav). Darchei Tzedek. With: Meshulam Feivish of Zbarazh, Derech Emeth [Hanhagoth, or spiritual exercises by early Chassidic masters]

Auction 30 · Lot 100

(Zechariah Mendel of Jaroslav). Darchei Tzedek. With: Meshulam Feivish of Zbarazh, Derech Emeth [Hanhagoth, or spiritual exercises by early Chassidic masters]

Estimate
$700–$900
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(CHASSIDISM).

printer

n.p.

Place

(Lemberg)

Publication

(1830)

Description

Title without any bibliographic data or embellishments (in order to avoid the government censor). On f.4r. and back flyleaf, inscriptions of former owner, Israel Czaczkes (this was also the original surname of Nobel laureate Samuel Joseph Agnon of Buczacz, Galicia)

references

Vinograd, Lemberg 472 (incorrect pagination)

summary

R. Zechariah Mendel of Zbarazh, nephew of R. Shmelke of Nikolsburg and R. Pinchas Halevi Horowitz of Frankfurt a/Main, was the eminent disciple of R. Elimelech of Lizhensk. See I. Alfasi, Ha-Chassiduth (1977), p. 115, no. 14; and S.H. Porush, Encyclopedia of Hasidim, Vol. I (1980), p. 567, no. 2-4
ff. (24). Stained. Contemporary boards. 8vo
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