Rosenberg, Abraham. Aneh Kesil ["Answer a Fool": An open rejoinder to Dr. Ritter regarding his criticism of the Yerushalmi Seder Kodashim in the periodical "Israelit"]

(POLEMICS).

Jacob Wieder

S. Warahl (Szatmar)

1908

Friedberg, Ayin-949

A defense of the forged Jerusalem Talmud composed by "Solomon Judah Algazi Friedlander." This pamphlet purports to be the work of one "Abraham Rosenberg," a disciple of Friedlander, who takes umbrage at the negative pronouncements of several experts concerning the purported Yerushalmi. Of especial interest is a (spurious?) letter from R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk to Friedlander, in which he offers the services of a relative, R. Chaim Hakohen Shapiro of Mohilev, as a distributor of the book, while diplomatically avoiding comment on the work itself (AK, f. 5b). See J.J. Greenwald, HaYerushalmi al Kodashim, in: Sepher HaYovel shel haPardess (1951) pp. 345-9; Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Printing the Talmud, pp. 288-9