Auction 91
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts Featuring an Extensive Collection of Rabbinic Autograph Letters.
Nov 12, 2020
(your local time)
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 96:
STEINER, YESHAYAH OF KERESTIR.
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Sold for: $26,000
Start price:
$
9,000
Estimated price:
$10,000 - $15,000
Auction house commission: 25%
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STEINER, YESHAYAH OF KERESTIR.
(“Reb Shayele, ” Grand Rabbi of Kerestir, 1851-1925). Letter Signed written on letterhead in Hebrew.
With full Hebrew signature: “Hakatan Yeshaya ben…Moshe za’l Shehaya Meshamesh BaKodesh etzel HaRav HaTzadik MeLiska Z[echutho] Y[agen] A[leinu].”
One page. Folds. 8vo.
Kerestir (Bodrogkeresztúr): n.d
R. “Shayele” Kerestir as he was affectionately known, was a disciple of R. Tzvi Hirsch Friedman of Liska who appointed him as his Shamash in 1870. Upon the death of R. Hershele, the great R. Chaim Sanzer and R. Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorno proclaimed R. Shayele as a Chassidic Rebbe. Out of deference to R. Hershele’s family, R. Shayele moved to Bodrog-Kerestir, near Miskolc in Hungary, where for the next fifty years, he became celebrated as a saintly miracle worker and astute arbitrator of disputes.
