(Rabbi of Sendra and Mezcsát, 1826-97). Collection of Autograph correspondence from various prominent rabbis to Rabbi Tennenbaum, along with an autograph copy of his response either on the verso of their query or otherwise attached.

TENNENBAUM, SHRAGA TZVI.

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Correspondents include: 1. R. Samuel Rosenberg, Rabbi of Unsdorf (author of Be’er Shmuel). Autograph Letter Signed (1886), with Autograph Signed reply by Rabbi Tennenbaum on verso. 2. R. Chaim Vitriol, Dayan of Mishkoltz. Autograph Letter Signed (1879). 3. His disciple R. Shabthai Bronfeld, Rabbi of Erdatelek (Otzar Harabanim no. 18042). Autograph Letter Signed (1889), with Autograph Signed reply by Rabbi Tennenbaum. 4. R. Moshe Leib Greenfeld, Rabbi of Rimosetch. Autograph Letter Signed (1893), with two Autograph Signed replies by Rabbi Tennenbaum. Letters from Rabbi Tennenbaum to: 5. R. Samuel Ehrenfeld, Rabbi of Siks (author of Chathan Sofer). Autograph Letter Signed (1871). 6. R. Samuel Ehrenfeld, Rabbi of Kivesht (nephew of Chathan Sofer). Autograph Letter Signed (1894). 7. R. Simcha Bunim Breuer, Rabbi of Tob (author of Kol Simcha). Two Autograph Letters Signed. 8. His brother R. Yaakov Tennenbaum (author of Naharei Afarsimon). Autograph Letter Signed. 9. R. Shimon Pollak of Hermenstadt. Autograph Letter Signed. * Accompanied by: 10. Autograph Letter Signed from his son, R. Moshe Tennenbaum (1898) to R. Amram Hirsch, Rabbi of Hamburg regarding his grandfather’s Sepher Rechovth Hanahar (with accompanying material). 11. Four-page Sabbath Teshuva sermon with halachic material (1916), apparently in the hand of Rabbi Tennenbaum’s son-in-law, R. Yehuda Altman who succeeded him as Rabbi and a copy of a letter by R. Moses Chaim Rosenbaum of Shamlau to Rabbi Altman. 12. 17 pages of Rabbi Tennebaum’s novellae on the law of divorce, nidah and other topics.

Rabbi Shraga Tzvi Tennenbaum was one of the most prominent Hungarian Rabbis and married the daughter of R. Avraham Yaakov Rose of Kashua. He was the author of the multi-volume Neta Sorek (Munkatch, 1897-99) whose publication was funded by Baron Karl Wilhelm Rothschild. His father R. Zev Wolf Tennenbaum was the author of Rechovoth Hanahar, published by his grandson Moshe. See P. Z. Schwartz, Shem HaGedolim Me’Eretz Hagar (Munkatch, 1914) Vol. II, p. 87 no. 127; Otzar Harabanim no. 20144.