Auction 37 · Lot 206
BRODA, ABRAHAM OF PRAGUE
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- $18,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Prague
Publication
1706
Description
Printed wedding invitation for the daughter of R. Abraham Broda and her Chathan, Yissachar Ber the son of Gabriel ben Yechiel Michal Weiner.
Written in an unusual poetic style, with Autograph Inscription and Signature of R. Abraham Broda. Addressed in a professional scribal hand with honorific titles to his “Mechutan,” R. Heschel, Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Szebrezin. With R. Heschel’s name, with a slightly different title, in the same scribal hand, written in the address panel fold on the verso
summary
Exceptionally uncommon.
R. Abraham Broda (1640-1717), a brilliant rabbinic scholar, was appointed head of the Yeshiva of Prague in 1693. He later served as Rabbi of Metz and Frankfurt where he also established outstanding Yeshivoth attracting first-rate students. His talmudic work Eshel Avraham was published posthumously by his grandson in Frankfurt in 1747. R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz, who studied under some of R. Abraham Broda’s disciples writes in his approbation to the book, ”R. Avraham was remarkably successful...most contemporary scholars of reknown were his disciples.”