Yisrael Ephraim Fishel Sofer. Afsei Aretz al HaTorah [commentary on Bereishith and Shemoth]

(BREUER, SALOMON).

Kohn and Klein

Munkacz

1899

First edition. Limited edition (see introduction). Two titles. First title with gold lettering. The Rabbi Dr. Salomon Breuer copy , with the Author’s gilt-stamped inscription on upper cover: “Minchah Sheluchah LehaRav HaGaon HaTzadik …Shlomo Breuer.” With his stamp “Dr. S. B.” on the title-page.

Salomon Breuer (1850-1926) married the youngest daughter of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch. He served as Rabbi of Papa, Hungary, until 1888, whereupon he succeeded his recently deceased father-in-law as the leading community rabbi of Frankfurt a/Main and so in essence, became the titular head of German Orthodoxy. The author (1822-99), was Rabbi of Nanash, Hungary, and a prime disciple of the Chassam Sofer, the Yismach Moshe and R. Chaim Sanzer. Rabbi Breuer studied in Pressburg under the Kessav Sofer and was thus well acquainted with many of the disciples of the Chassam Sofer.