Noda BeYehudah [responsa]. Mahadura Tinyana.

LANDAU, EZEKIEL.

Franz Sommer

Prague

1811

FIRST EDITION. Two parts bound in one volume. Previous owners marks, including extensive marginalia by R. Shmuel Hilman.

Vinograd, Prague 1109.

R. Shmuel Hilman, Dayan of Shlaning and Shokatorn (b. 1799), was the son of R. Moshe Halevi of Glogau, author of Sha’ar HaKatan in the work Chut Hameshulsh Besha’arim (see Kinstlicher & Spitzer, Kehilath Tzehlem VeChachameha, Bnei Brak, 2000, pp. 115-6). The Dayan’s inscription on the title-page notes, “my father the Gaon bought this book from the person signed below (Isaac of Helischau).” The marginalia contain interesting, scholarly and critical remarks ranging from the respectful: “I do not understand” (Part II, f. 156b) to the assertive: “He does not know what he is talking about” (Part II, f. 156a). Other signatories include Elazar Trevitsch of Mattersdorf.