Knesset HaGedolah and Sheyarei Knesset HaGedolah - Signatures of Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz and Rabbi Moshe Greenwald ...

Knesset HaGedolah and Sheyarei Knesset HaGedolah - Signatures of Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz and Rabbi Moshe Greenwald Rabbi of Khust, Author of Arugat HaBosem - Signatures and Stamps
Knesset HaGedolah, on Orach Chaim. Livorno, 1657. First edition.
Bound with: Sheyarei Knesset HaGedolah, on Orach Chaim. Izmir, [1671]. First edition.
Important ownership with signatures:
On the title page of the first book: signatures, stamps and inscriptions. At the top of the page is the signature of R. "Wolf Boskowitz". Near this signature is another signature: "Moshe son of R. Amram Grünwald" - signature of the author of Arugat HaBosem. His stamp appears in the center of the title page: "Moshe Grünwald Rabbi of Khust and the region", alongside his son's signature: "Avraham Yosef Grünwald Rabbi of Ungvar (Uzhhorod) and the region" (his stamp also appears on the last leaf of the second book).
Early signature at the top of the title page of the first book: "…Yehuda Aryeh Leib son of R. David…". His signature appears again on the title page of the second book and on leaf [2] at the beginning of the second book (attesting that the two books were bound together at an early time).
Several glosses in the second book.
R. Binyamin Ze'ev Wolf HaLevi Boskowitz (1740-1818), an eminent Hungarian rabbi, son and disciple of the author of Machatzit HaShekel, R. Shmuel HaLevi of Kolín Rabbi of Boskovice (1724-1806). He served as rabbi in Aszód, Prostitz (Prostějov; there he developed a close relationship with the Chatam Sofer, see Ishim BiTeshuvot Chatam Sofer, section 113), Pest, Balassagyarmat, Kolín and Bonyhád, raising hundreds of disciples. His Torah knowledge and his sharp mind were venerated by leading Torah scholars of his times, such as the Noda BiYehuda, R. Betzalel Ranschburg (Ronsburg), R. Mordechai Benet, the Chatam Sofer, R. Akiva Eger, and others. Among his printed and handwritten compositions, the most prominent is his monumental Seder Mishneh on all parts of Yad HaChazaka by the Rambam, which has not yet been fully published. His Talmudic glosses are titled Agudat Ezov (they were printed in the Vienna 1830-1833 Shas edition, with an approbation by the Chatam Sofer).
R. Moshe son of R. Amram Grünwald (1853-1910, HaChatam Sofer VeTalmidav, p. 521), leading rabbi and yeshiva dean in Hungary. A disciple of R. Menachem Katz Prostitz of Tzeilem (Deutschkreutz) and of the Ketav Sofer in Pressburg. Already in his youth, he directed a yeshiva in his birthplace Charna (Csorna), later serving as rabbi of several Hungarian communities and from 1893, of Khust. Though he was a product of the Chatam Sofer's yeshiva, he was drawn to Chassidism and would frequent the courts of the rebbes of Belz and Sighet. In Khust, he set up his glorious court and expanded his yeshiva, which became one of the largest yeshivot in Hungary. Students from throughout the country and beyond flocked to his yeshiva, and many Hungarian rabbis were his disciples. He was renowned for his compositions on Halacha and Aggadah named Arugat HaBosem. His son was R. Yaakov Yechizkiya Grünwald Rabbi and Rebbe of Pupa (Pápa), and his grandson was Rebbe Yosef Grünwald of Pupa, who established the Pupa Chassidic dynasty in the United States after the Holocaust. His son R. Avraham Yosef Grünwald (d. 1928) served as rabbi of Makava (Makó), Khust and Ungvar.
More stamps on the title page of the first book, including: "Moshe Asher Eckstein, Rabbi of Sered" - R. Moshe Asher Eckstein (1889-1942, murdered in the Holocaust), Rabbi of Sered from ca. 1921, yeshiva dean and public activist, one of the leaders of the yeshiva world in Slovakia and Hungary and patron of the Hungarian Torah world.
Two books in one volume: 6, 164 leaves; [2], 156 leaves. 29 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Worming, damage and tears repaired with paper to some leaves (mostly first and last leaves of volume). Large tear to last leaf, reinforced with paper. New leather binding.
Stefansky Classics, no. 170.