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Auction 35 · Lot 204

Zera Yitzchak [Talmudic commentary on Zevachim and Menachoth, plus an essay by his son Chaim, author of Haphla’ah She-be-Erchin]

Estimate
$300–$400
Hammer price
$200

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author

RABINOWITZ, YITZCHAK ISAAC OF SHAVEL

printer

S. Movshovitz

Place

Keidan

Publication

1939

Description

FIRST EDITION

summary

UNLISTED BIBLIOGRAPHICALLY, including J. Landau, Oroth Me-Ophel, Bibliography of Jewish Religious Books Published in Europe 1933-1945 (New York, 1957). One of the final books printed in Lithuania before the onset of German annihilation. The author (1785-1853) was one of the great Rabbis of Lithuania who authored a number of other works including Nitei Ne-emanim on Shulchan Aruch and Atereth Yitzchak, responsa. R. Joseph Kahaneman of Ponivizh accorded him with the honorific title of “Ha-Gaon Ha-Amiti Maor Olam.”
pp. 80. Original boards. Folio
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