FRIED, JOSEPH. Sepher Ohel Yoseph [responsa]

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

A. Ch. Rosenberg

New York

1903

First Edition. Printed Presentation letter with three-line signed autogaphed inscription by the author tipped to opening blank.

Friedberg, Aleph-770

The First Work of Responsa by an American Rabbi. Contains responsa indicating the economic, social and religious conditions of the Jews of New York at the turn of the 20th century. Addresses concerns such as whether to allow Kohanim who were lax in their religious observance to recite the priestly blessing; the status of bread baked on the Sabbath in a bakery with Jewish employees; travel on a ferry on the Sabbath, constructing a Sukah on a fire escape, questions pertaining to large apartment building, etc. Contains many responses from R. Yitzchak Elchanan of Kovno.