Bidspirit auction | Collection of antique Seforim with

Collection of antique Seforim with signatures & dedications - 1. (Kabbalah) Sifsei Kohen - Hamburg, 1690 - Second edition. by Rabbi Mordechai HaKohen of Tzfat on the Torah. Handwritten inscription, in early Ashkenazic script, on the last leaf: ''This book belongs to the Beit Midrash of the leader and philanthropist, Rabbi Avraham Schneur, so says Dovid Yitzchak son of Reb Baruch of --- [?]”. (R. Avraham Schneur mentioned here is Reb Avraham son of Reb Schneur Zalman, who maintained a Beit Midrash in his home in Fürth, and was the brother-in-law of Reb Yissachar Berman Frankel author of Mateh Yissachar, dean of the Fürth yeshiva. See Hamburger, HaYeshiva HaRama BeFiurda, part I, p. 271) 2. Sefer Kovod Chachomim - Hamburg, 1703. Kovod Ha-Bayit - Hamburg, 1703. By Rabbi Shimon Volf ben Yaakov. Commentaries on Midrash, and Aggada. Hamburg, 1703. Dedication to a Chosson the son of the Chazon of Kolo, Poland dated 1856. ---Bound with  Kovod Ha-Bayit By Rabbi Shimon Volf ben Yaakov. Commentaries on Seder Zroyim and Moadim. Hamburg, 1703. Stamp of Radomsk Chassidim Lodz. 3. Sefer Pri Megadim by Rabbi Yoseph ben Meir Tiumim. Zolkiew, 1811/ Signature of Rabbi Meir Kahane. 4. Sefer Birchat Hamayim - Vienna, 1862., By Rabbi Yechiel Michel ben Yoseph Teimer. Discussion on names in a Get - according to Halacha. Vienna, 1862. Signature of Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter Rabbi of Rotterdam.  5. Sefer Pri Yoseph - Drohovich, 1897. by Rabbi Yoseph Panzer Rabbi of Drohvitch. Chidushim Msechte Makos.  With Author's stamp. 6.   Sefer Hachaim - Beregszasz, 1921. Nice dedication by Rabbi  Yekutiel Zalmen Shochet of Chust to Rabbi Dov Marton Rav of the Shaarey Zedek community in NY.  Bernard Dov Marton was born in Velete, Hungary on July 4, 1906 or 1909. He received his religious education and rabbinic training while studying at the Yeshivot (Jewish schools) of Chust (a city in the Maramures region of Romania and Ukraine) and Pressburg (present-day Bratislava, Slovakia). He was ordained in 1929 by Rabbis Joseph Zwi Dushinsky and Rabbi David Elimelech Weiss, both of the Pressburg Yeshiva. He also studied at the Open German Business School at Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and in 1932 graduated with a doctorate in Philosophy from the Universite Philotechnique in Brussels, Belgium. Marton immigrated to the United States via Hamilton, Ontario in 1933. He settled in New York City and obtained his first pulpit as rabbi of the Hungarian synagogue, Congregation Nachlas Zwie, Linas Hazedek Bnei Menasche, located on the Lower East Side. In 1935 he became rabbi of Congregation Sharei Zedek, the Sea Gate Sisterhood and Talmud Torah in Brooklyn, NY. He married Sylvia Silberstein in 1937 and they had a daughter Deborah and a son Laurence Jay (an alumnus of Yeshiva University) in 1940 and 1943, respectively. In September 1941, Marton became rabbi of First Congregation Anshe S'fard of Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY. In 1945 Marton became rabbi of Congregation Kenesseth Israel in San Francisco, California. He reacted to the lack of traditional Orthodox Jewish observance amongst San Francisco Jews by strongly advocating adherence to Orthodox Judaism. Accordingly, he founded and served as dean of the Hebrew Academy of San Francisco, an Orthodox Jewish day school. Additionally, Marton founded, published, and edited the Jewish Courier, a monthly newspaper, and was appointed West Coast Chairman of the Rabbinical Alliance. He left San Francisco in 1952 to become Executive Vice-President and Provost of the Yeshiva Torah Vodaath schools in Brooklyn, NY. Marton worked to help the Yeshiva overcome its financial crisis. In the fall of 1952 Marton became rabbi of Congregation Adas Israel and Mishnayes in Newark, NJ. In 1955, Marton left Newark for a ”lifetime position” at Congregation B'nai Reuben in Los Angeles. That synagogue was beset by financial problems and had to close temporarily, leading Marton to end his tenure as rabbi in 1961. After leaving Los Angeles, Marton held several (mainly part-time) rabbinic and cantorial positions until 1982. He was admired for his cantorial skills and was known as ”the Rabbi with the Golden Voice.” During World War II, Marton reached out to many government officials to obtain visas to enable his relatives and other European Jews to immigrate to the United States and escape the Holocaust. Tragically, these efforts were largely unsuccessful and most of Marton's relatives were killed during the war. Marton's various involvements reflect his lifelong bond to his Eastern European roots and his commitment to helping Jews in America and abroad. Accordingly, he maintained his connection to the Pressburg Yeshiva and spoke at memorial commemorations for Holocaust victims from Chust and Maramarosh. Furthermore, he assisted European Jews orphaned during the Holocaust to become reacquainted with their heritage.