Sepher ha-Zichronoth [Autograph book offered by students of Talmud Torah, Cologne to Rabbi Pinchas Wolf]. * With several letters of appreciation from former students

(WOLF, PINCHAS)

Cologne, Germany

1936

Manuscript in Hebrew; most signatures in German. Letters in German with smattering of Hebrew

Rabbi Pinchas Wolf (d. 1950) has been described as a “gaon in Torah wisdom and science, as well as a man of action.” N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, p. 351, no. 16988. In 1936, on the eve of his departure for the Holy Land, his students of the Talmud Torah of Cologne, offered this “Sepher ha-Zichronoth” or Book of Memories in homage. As the introduction to the book explains, the Talmud Torah of Cologne was founded by Pinchas’ father, Rabbi Ze’ev Wolf. Each student offered a verse from the Bible, below which he (or she) signed