CHAIM BEN MENACHEM MENDEL HAGER OF KOSOV. Torath Chaim [discourses to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(CHASSIDISM)

printer

Feige Grossman

Place

Lemberg

Publication

1855

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Lemberg 1281; regarding the female printer see Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, p.271

summary

The author (1795-1854) was the oldest son of R. Menachem Mendel of Kosov. He was maried to the celebrated Zipporah, renowned for her piety, of whom R. Israel of Ruzhyn was to proclaim “(she) is the most righteous person in the world" (see T. M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism p. 164). This copy contains two leaves of addenda and corrections not recorded by either Vinograd or S. C. Porush, Encyclopedia LeChassiduth (1980) col. 596

ff. (1), 5-39, 7, (2). Ex-library, trace stained, two leaves shorter. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 4to

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