(Divrei Shalom) [novellae, responsa and comments on the Pri Megadim on Yoreh Deah, plus additional material on Even Ha’Ezer]

ZINOBER, LEIB SHALOM.

Kupishok (Lithuania)

Late 19th-century

Extensive Hebrew Manuscript. Includes some notes in another hand

The author received Semicha from R.Yitzchak Elchanan of Kovno and served as Rabbi for twelve years in Ostrov and ten years in Kupishok ((Lithuania)). He died in Warsaw at aged fifty. His son, R. Yisrael Leib, was a Rabbi in Manchester and London from 1923 until his death in 1950. Apparently, the author copied his novellae in various sized ledgers. In the present manuscript there are notes at the beginning or end of various chapters in another hand stating whether a particular text had already been transcribed into the larger ledger. These writings were published by R. Zinober’s daughter-in-law in London in 1952, alongside some of her husband's sermons and eulogies, and with an introduction by R. Tzvi Hirsch Ferber. Apparently the published volumes are based upon the larger ledgers. A comparison of this manuscript alongside the published text on Yoreh Deah reveals minor variants of an occasional line or two.