Hespedim, etc.

BRODE, CHAIM TZVI HIRSCH.

Nemakst-Sveksna (and later, Washington DC)

1883-1913

Autograph manuscript in Hebrew on paper. Stamps of of the author on f. 17a.

Eulogies for prominent rabbis including: R. Israel Salanter, R. Naphtali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin (“Netziv”), R Gavriel of Ritava, R. Joseph Dov Halevi Soloveitchik of Brisk, R. Leibel of Kelm, R. Yitzchak Elchanan of Kovna, R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin of Brisk-Jerusalem, etc. The author (d. 1911) was the father-in-law of R. Zelig Reuven Bengis, head of the Eidah Hachareidith, Jerusalem, and served as Rabbi of Sveksna, Zager, Nemakst and Jerusalem and was a prolific author publishing She’erith Chaim, Otzar Chaim, Revach Vehatzalah and Shir Chadash. The first six leaves are written by his nephew, R. Gedalia Silverstone, later rabbi in Georgetown and contain eulogies (dated 1911) for R. Eliezer Gordon of Telz, R. Eliezer Simcha Rabinowitz of Lomza, Chief Rabbi Adler of London, and his uncle (the author) R. Chaim Tzvi Hirsch Brode. The final ten leaves were also written (in Yiddish) by Rabbi Silverstone and contain sermons for the High Holy Days, 1913.