YUDELEWITZ, ABRAHAM AARON. Av Bechochmah.

Estimate

$700–$900

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Oriium Press

Place

New York

Publication

1927

Description

Expanded edition.

references

See Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 676.

summary

Controversy surrounding a responsa by ABRAHAM AARON YUDELEWITZ, who allowed a messenger to perform Chalitzah for a woman living in Kiev while her deceased husband's brother lived in New York. This edition includes the related opinion of a host of opponents to this decision including: R. Joseph Rosen of Dvinsk (the Rogatchover Gaon), his son-in-law R. Abba David Goldfein of Moscow, R. Isser Zalman Meltzer of Slutsk and R. Shlomo Yoseph Zevin of Novozipkov. Afterwards, other Rabbis joined the fray including R. Chaim Ozer Grodzienski, the Chofetz Chaim, R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein of Slabodka, etc. For a biography of Rabbi Yudelewitz (1850-1930), see Moshe Tzvi Berger in Yeshurun Vol. II, pp. 686-93.

pp. 128. Original boards. 4to.

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