Michtav Eliyahu [commentary to Shir HaShirim and Book of Habakuk].

ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA.

Franz Sommer

Prague

1811

FIRST EDITION. Karl Fischer censorship certification in Latin on title-page. Four-page list of Prenumeranten (subscribers).

Vinograd, Prague 1107.

Six of the Gra’s works were published in the space of five years (1810-15) in a project undertaken by Dayan Shimon Oppenheim of Pest, Hungary. In a message clearly mandated by the censor to this work, the publisher exhorts the reader not to think that the term ‘Oved Kochavim’ (idolator) applies to the Christians of today “in whose shade we shelter… rather, we are obligated to pray for their welfare.” For an examination by Elli Fischer on the subscription list to this work, see https://blog.hamapah.org/mapping/reception-of-the-vilna-gaon-in-central-europe/.