Midrash Tehilim Rabatha [commentary to the Book of Psalms]. * Bound With: MIDRASH SHMUEL [commentary to the Book of Samuel]. * And: Midrash Mishlei [commentary to the Book of Proverbs]

(MIDRASH).

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1546

Third edition. (Midrash Tehilim was published in Constantinople in 1512 [until Psalm 119] and in Salonika in 1515 [Psalms 119-150], thus, this is the first complete edition. On front fly, "R. Yitzchak Dov Halevi, n[atreh] r[achmana] u[parkeh], Bamberger." With Rabbi Bamberger's marginal notes on ff. 52r, 54v, 56r, 58v, 59v, 61r)

Vinograd, Venice 273; Habermann, Bomberg 193; Adams M-1426

ISAAC DOV HALEVI BAMBERGER ("WUERZBURGER RAV") COPY WITH HIS MARGINAL NOTES. Rabbi Isaac Dov Halevi (Seligmann Baer) Bamberger (1807-1878) was perhaps the greatest Talmudist in Germany and the doyen of the Orthodox rabbinate. In Wuerzburg, where he assumed the rabbinate in 1840, he established an important yeshivah, the last of its kind in Germany. His most significant literary production was his edition of the medieval halakhic work of R. Isaac ibn Ghayyat, Sha'arei Simcha, which he published together with his commentary "Yitzchak Yeranen" (Fuerth, 1861-62). Hundreds of Bamberger's responsa were published in the two-volume She'eloth u-Teshuvoth Yad Halevi (Jerusalem, 1965-87). At the time of the historic "Austritt" from the general Frankfurt Jewish community by R. Samson Raphael Hirsch and his followers, the Wuerzburger Rav opposed the secession. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996), pp.160-171; EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 154-156