Agadath Eliyahu

(HAGADAH).

Yiddishe Tageblatt

New York

1903

First Edition of commentary. Title within typographical border on yellow paper. Former owner’s stamp on front fly leaf and final page. Clean, crisp copy.

Yudlov 2243; Yaari 1636

Contains a lengthy commentary by Eliahu Sarahsohn, the Maggid of Lomza and Suvalk. He later served as Rabbi of Peiser and as Maggid of the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem. The book is adorned with the haskamoth or encomia of the great halachic authorities who were Sarahsohn’s contemporaries: Rabbis Jacob Ettlinger of Altona, Meir Auerbach of Jerusalem, Tzevi Hirsch Chajes, Dov Berish Meisels of Warsaw, Jechiel Heller of Suvalk, and finally, Israel Salanter. (Haskamoth of the latter are rare). The book was issued by the author’s son, Kathriel Sarahsohn, publisher of theYiddishe Tageblatt