Auction 048 Rebbes of Satmar, Sighet and Bobov - Books, Objects, Letters and Manuscripts, Broadsides and Printed Items
Kreiti UPleiti, Part I on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De'ah (sections 1-111), by R. Yehonatan Eybeschutz; with Tiferet Yisrael, on Yoreh De'ah laws of Niddah, by his grandson R. Yisrael Eybeschutz. Lviv, 1860.
Copy of the first Chassidic Beit Midrash established by Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum in Satmar (ca. 1906). Many dozens of stamps, including later stamps, after his appointment as rabbi of Satmar.
Marginal glosses; two of them signed by one of the Torah scholars of the Beit Midrash: "Eizik, 1941".
[2], 2-90 [i.e.: 89]; [1], 2-14, 6 leaves. Lacking 3 leaves at end of volume (leaves 7-9). Misfoliation. 37 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains and dampstains. Creases and wear. Tears and extensive worming, affecting text. Marginal open tears to title page, affecting border and text on verso. Inscriptions and stamps. New leather binding.
Yadot Nedarim, Part I on Tractate Nedarim and Part II on several tractates and on the laws of Passover, tefillin and weddings, by R. Yehuda Yudel Rosenberg Rabbi of Tarłów and posek in Warsaw. Warsaw: Efraim Baumritter, 1902. First edition.
On the title page (on both sides), inscriptions and signatures of a student in the yeshiva of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (presumably when the yeshiva was still in Orsheva): "Mordechai Yoel HaLevi Ish Horowitz, studying under… Rebbe Yoel Rabbi of Orsheva, presently residing in Satmar…"; "Mordechai Yoel HaLevi Ish…" – presumably R. Mordechai Yoel HaLevi Horowitz of Margareten, who perished in the Holocaust in 1943 in the slave labor battalion (see enclosed material).
[4], 5-43 leaves. Lacking final leaf. 29.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Marginal open tears to title page, repaired with paper and tape, affecting text and ownership inscriptions. Marginal open tears to half the leaves, not affecting text. Stamp and inscriptions on title page. New leather binding.
Tzror HaChaim, novellae on Talmudic topics and halachah, by R. Shmuel Shmelke Klein Rabbi of Khust and Selish (Vynohradiv). Munkacs: Pinchas Bleier, 1876. First edition.
Copy used by the students of the Satmar yeshiva and of other yeshivot in the Maramureș region, with many signatures, stamps and inscriptions on the title page and other leaves, by students attesting to having studied the book in 1923-1925. Inscriptions of R. Amram Grünwald of Ujhel, R. Efraim Fishel Feldman grandson of the Maharam Schick, and others.
Many stamps.
Brief gloss (trimmed) on p. 55.
[11], 2-94, [3] leaves. Approx. 33.5 cm. Good condition. Browning. Stains and wear. Minor marginal tears. Inscriptions. New binding.