Auction 105: Rabbinic Autograph Letters & Passover Haggadot.
By Kestenbaum & Company
Apr 4, 2024
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

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 most valuable lot offered is a Sefer that was personally owned by, and has a long personal inscription in the hand of, R. Chaim Volozhiner (Lot 4).


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 58:

SOFER, AVRAHAM SHMUEL BENYAMIN WOLF. (The Kesav Sofer, 1815-71).

Manuscript ...


Start price:
$ 10,000
Estimated price :
$10,000 - $12,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
04/04/2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
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SOFER, AVRAHAM SHMUEL BENYAMIN WOLF. (The Kesav Sofer, 1815-71).

Manuscript Document Signed, pertaining to Leopold Deutsch.


German marriage certificate of Leopold Deutsch and his bride Rosalia Hermann. Written and signed by the Rabbi of Pressburg. Rabbi Sofer signs: “S. W. Schreiber, Oberrabinner, ” using his legal name, Samuel Wolf, and with his official stamp.


One page.

Pressburg, 13th April, 1865.


R. Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer was R. Moshe Sofer - the Chasam Sofer’s eldest son through his second marriage, to Sorel, R. Akiva Eger’s daughter.


At the Chasam Sofer’s funeral in 1839, the Kesav Sofer was named as his father’s successor: Rabbi of Pressburg and director of its famous yeshiva. Through his depth of learning, piety, and charisma, the son would extend his father’s spiritual dominance of Hungarian Orthodox Jewry. His own sons in turn, were among the most prominent rabbis in Hungary, continuing the legacy of the Sofer rabbinic family.