Signature of The Holy Gaon Rabbi Menachem Katz Prostitz Rabbi of Tzelem- Toldos Avrahom, Fürth 1762 , First edition.

Signature of The Holy Gaon Rabbi Menachem Katz Prostitz Rabbi of Tzelem- Toldos Avrahom, Fürth 1762 , First edition.

Sefer Toldos Avrahom. By Rabbi Avrahom ben Shaul Bruda of Frankfurt Main

Fürth, 1762 - First edition,

Signature (a little erased) on title page of The Holy Gaon Rabbi Menachem Katz Prostitz Rabbi of Tzelem (Deutschkreutz).

The Holy Gaon Rabbi Menachem Katz Prostitz (1795-1891), was one of the outstanding talmidim of Maran the Chasam Sofer to whom he was particularly close. He is mentioned in Chidushei Chasam Sofer numerous times and was one of the individuals with whom the Chasam Sofer learned Kabblah.

While learning in Pressburg he was zoche to “Gilui Eliyohu”. From 1834 he served as Rav in Rogendorf and then in Tzelem, where he served for more than fifty years in addition to leading a great Yeshiva. Among his Talmidim was the renowned Rabbi Moshe Grunewald (Arugas Habosem). 

He arrived at the home of his Rabbi the Chatam Sofer during the last minutes of his life and when nearing his last breath, the Chatam Sofer signaled Rabbi Menachem to leave the house so that the Cohen should not remain in a house with a dead person.  He was one of the leading rabbis of Hungary. 

Father-in-law of Rabbi David Friedman who succeeded him as Rov in Tzelem, who was the father in law of Rabbi Mordechai Rottenberg, Rav of Antwerp.

Fair condition, stains, light worming to first 2 pages & last pages in margins, tear with loss to text on page 53, later binding.