(Rabbi and Chief Shochet of London. 1862-1937).

HYMAN, AARON.

London

1899

Autograph Hebrew Manuscript. Two volumes. Substantial working draft and notes relating to his encyclopedic Beth Aaron.

Entitled “Beth Aaron,” this is an encyclopedic alphabetical index to all Aggadic sayings and epigrams found in the Zohar, in Talmudic and Midrashic literature and elsewhere. It was published under the name Beth Vaad LaChachamim in 1901 and revised in 1934 under the title Otzar Divrei Chachamim VePithgameihem. The second manuscript volume here records epigrams according to the names of Tanaim and Amoraim and is apparently the basis for R. Hyman’s Toldoth Tanaim Ve’Amoraim (London, 1910-11). See EJ, Vol. VIII col. 1143.