(RABBI OF GROSSVERDEIN AND RADWITZ). Autograph sermons, eulogies and novellae

Estimate

$3,000–$5,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

KUNSTADT, YITZCHAK

Place

Grossverdein-Radwitz

Publication

1873-1904

Description

Including many historical eulogies including R. Yehoshua of Belz and R.Yaakov Weidenfeld of Harimilov

summary

The author was a disciple of the R. Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sopher (The Kethav Sopher), who in later years entrusted Kunstadt to tutor his son, the Shevet Sopher. Kunstadt was one the most reknowned Hungarian Rabbis. His powerful delivery and the depth of his sermons and eulogies made his books Luach Erez (Cracow 1886 and Tzernowitz, 1887) and Luach Erez Ha-Chadash (Vienna, 1915) extremely popular and many of his novellae are cited in popular anthologies such as Likutei Bather Likutei by R. Samuel Alter. The present autograph manuscript contains unpublished material. In his sermon for Rosh Ha-Shanah,1903 Kunstadt recounts the Kishenev pogrom of that Summer, he also cites a comment heard in the name of the Chassidic Rebbe Yehoshua of Belz (vol. II p. 891) and widom heard from the Kethav Sopher (p.567). See Friedman, Otzar Ha-Rabanim 10972

Two volumes. Over 1,300 pages. Some staining, a few pages frayed. Signature and inscription in German by his son, Meir Kunstadt, Vienna,1914. Vol. I disbound, Vol. II original boards, some pages loose. 4to

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