(The “Noda Beyehudah”). Tzion Le'Nephesh Chayah [novellae and discources on Talmudic Tractate Beitzah]

LANDAU, EZEKIEL.

Elsenwanger

Prague

1799

FIRST EDITION. With extensive scholarly, marginal notes and signatures of various members of the Oppenheim Family. Includes a lengthy inscription dated 1823 stating that this book belonged to Rabbi Chaim Oppenheim of Dresden who “taught Torah to many disciples” and stamp of Dr. J. Oppenheim, Rabbiner, Thorn

Vinograd, Prague 1041; Friedman, Otzar Ha-Rabanim 5869

The marginal notes are apparantly in the hand of Rabbi Chaim Oppenheim, Rabbi in Dresden. According to his sons’ inscrption on the flyleaf, R. Chaim originally lived in Pressburg. Many of his scholarly correspondence and responsa are cited by his brother, R. Baer in his work “Mei Baer” (Vienna,1829), which also contains correspondence with R. Ezekiel Landau. R. Baer was a wealthy business man / scholar and served as the “Rosh Ha-Kahal” (communal leader) of Pressburg during the era the Chatham Sopher served as Rabbi. His relative, Dr. J. (Joachim) Oppenheim of Thorn, was a brother-in-law of Isaac Hirsch Weiss, a scholar in his own right, author of Toldoth Ha-Mishna, Pressburg, 1882