The auction commences with a first edition of the Segulah-book "Raziel HaMalach" (Lot 1); followed by books that were owned by significant rabbis:
R. Shlomo Ganzfried (Lot 5); The Aruch Hashulchan (Lot 6); R. Meir Shapira of Lublin (Lot 68).
The auction contains many excellent offerings of Autograph Letters including:
The first Rebbe of Sadigura, R. Avraham Ya'akov (Lot 13); The Chofetz Chaim (Lots 17-20); The Ohr Same’ach (Lot 41); The Kesav Sofer (Lot 58); Reb Chaim Brisker (Lot 59); The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and her sister (Lots 50-51); and dozens more of such letters.
Autograph manuscripts of note are those from R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (Lot 9A); The Tiferes Yisroel (Lot 40); and a 14th-century Ramba'n manuscript (Lot 9).
As per annual tradition, this pre-Pesach auction features a wide selection of Passover Hagadot:
The rare, the exotic and the curious; with examples from 1545 through until 2008.
Among particularly Early examples: Lot 87 (Venice, 1545); Lot 88 (Riva di Trento, 1561) and Lot 95 (Salonika, 1569).
Beautifully illustrated Hagadoth include: Lot 93 (Venice, 1740); Lot 85 (India, 1874) and Lot 115 (The Avner Moriah Hagadah).
Historically significant Hagadoth include Lot 72 (American/Canadian/Anglo-related) and many examples from Germany, India, Jerusalem; as well as first edition Hagadah commentaries by the Vilna Gaon (Lot 96), R. Ya'akov Emden (Lot 78); and ending with several facsimile editions.
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LOT 22:
EPSTEIN, BARUCH HALEVI. (Author of Torah Temimah ...
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Estimated price :
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Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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EPSTEIN, BARUCH HALEVI.
(Author of Torah Temimah, 1860-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew, written to Avraham Harkavy.
Novogrudok, 8th April, 1908.
His father, R. Yechiel Michel Epstein of Novardok, was the author of the Aruch HaShulchan (see lot 6 and next lot). His maternal uncle was R. Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv of Volozhin, under whom Rabbi Epstein studied in his youth. In his scholarly memoir, the 4-volume Mekor Baruch, Rabbi Epstein provides a lengthy, personal account of the Netziv, his wife, and many other topics which are invaluable for understanding the world of the Lithuanian yeshiva of the 19th century.
Avraham (Albert) Harkavy (1835-1919) was an historian and head of the Oriental Division in the Imperial Public Library, Saint Petersburg (an astonishing achievement for a Jew in Czarist Russia). In his youth Harkavy received a classic rabbinic education in the great yeshiva of Volozhin, to which he supplemented a modern rabbinic education from the maskilic Rabbinical Seminary of Vilna, followed by studies in Semitic languages and literature in universities in Berlin and Paris. Harkavy wrote a monumental history of the Jews of Russia, and also made important contributions to Karaite Studies and more.
