Bidspirit auction | PRESENTATION, CLEVELAND 1929

PRESENTATION, CLEVELAND 1929 - Presentation volume given to R. Menachem Mendel Eckstein of Cleveland for use as a catalog to index his vast collection of seforim. Silver corners, clasp and plate engraved Asifas Menachem. The book is divided according to the Hebrew Alphabet with the intent of providing an index for a Hebraic Library. Extremely elaborate title page, illustrated in color by hand, stating that this book was given to Rabbi Eckstein in 1929 as a token of appreciation for his three years of devoted service to the Cleveland community. R. Menachem Mendel Eckstein (1884-1946) was born in Sighet, Romania where he was a contemporary of the Atzei Chaim. Shortly after World War I, he immigrated to the United States where he became a communal Rabbi in Cleveland. A renowned bibliophile, he amassed a vast collection of seforim and his congregants apparently presented him with this volume as a means to catalog them. Rabbi Eckstein, however, does not seem to have made use of the gift, whose pages are completely blank. Fine condition spine slightly frayed. 35 cm.