(EGER-GANS FAMILY).

Stammbaum [Family-Tree] of descendants of Rabbi Elijah Eger. pp. (2) + 2 integral blanks. Brown ink on paper. With German-Hebrew red wax seal of “Chevra Kadisha / Der Isr. beerdig Brüderschaft” [Jewish Burial Society] and Austro-Hungarian postage stamp. Creased, some tears along creases. Folio. (Prague, 24 September, 1835). * With another genealogical chart of same family notarized by Moses Wolf Jeiteles with bilingual German-Hebrew seal of M.W. J. pp. (2) + 2 integral blanks. Brown ink on paper. Folio. (Prague, 1844)

The data concerning the Eger Family is presented both synoptically (recto) and in the form of a genealogical chart (verso). The most famous scion of the Eger-Gans Family was, of course, Akiva Eger, Rabbi of Posen (Akiva Eger the Younger) (1761-1837). At the top of the Family Tree we have “Rabbi Elias Eger.” Elijah Eger (d.1761) was the brother of Simchah Bunem Eger (d. 1764), father of Akiva Eger the Elder (d.1758), author “Mishnath de-Rabbi,” grandfather and namesake of the Talmudist par excellence R. Akiva Eger. Thus, the progenitor of this branch of the family, Rabbi Elias Eger, was the great-great uncle of the author of the famed glosses to the Talmud. See JE, Vol. V, pp. 51-54