Ezri MiKodesh [novellae to Talmud and Rabbinic rulings]

AUERBACH, ABRAHAM BEN AVIEZRI SELIG

N.p.

18th century

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Two volumes. * Vol. 1: ff. (225, collated: ff. 3-227). * Vol. 2: ff. (89).

R. Avraham Auerbach (1763-1845) was educated first by his grandfather in Worms, and later by his uncle, Joseph David Sinzheim, subsequently president of the Central Consistory in Paris. Under the latter’s direction, Avraham Auerbach acquired not only extensive Talmudic knowledge, but a secular education as well. When, owing to the efforts of Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim, a Jewish community was formed in Strasbourg, Auerbach was charged with its administration. At the outbreak of the Reign of Terror in France, Auerbach, on account of his connection with Cerfberr (who as former contractor to the royal army was suspected by the revolutionists), was thrown into prison where he remained for a year. On leaving Strasbourg he was appointed rabbi in Forbach, then in Neuwied and finally in Bonn. See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) nos. 146, 147. These manuscript volumes have not been published to date.