Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Babylonian Talmud – Belonging to the Maharsham HaCohen Hollander, with Signatures and Glosses

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Babylonian Talmud, 1-18 (Tractates Brachot-Nida). Vilna, 1908-1909. Re'em Printers. Some of the volumes have detailed signatures by Rabbi "Shmuel Meir HaCohen Hollander", and stamps of previous owners, Rabbi "Ya'acov Yoseph Berson, Lentchna, Lublin region". List of births in the handwriting of Rabbi Shmuel Meir Hollander.
Some of the volumes have short and long glosses in the handwriting of Rabbi Shmuel Hollander, and in other handwritings, dated earlier.
The volume of Tractates Nedarim-Nazir-Sotah has dozens of glosses. The volume of Avodah Zara-Pirkei Avot and small tractates, has dozens of long glosses in Rabbi Shmuel Meir Hollander's handwriting (most of the glosses are on Avot D'Rabbi Natan and Masechet Sofrim).
Rabbi Shmuel Meir HaCohen Hollander (1889-1965), Encyclopedia of Chachmei Galicia, Part 2, pages 96-99), son of Rabbi Natan David Rabbi of Amshana and son-in-law of Rabbi Shalom Hager of Shtrozshnitz. A great genius and a faithful chassid. A disciple of Rabbi Shlomo of Bobov, and close to the rebbes of Belz, Ruzhin, Vishnitz and Sanz. From 1913, he was Rabbi of Tschernowitz and after the Holocaust he immigrated to Israel where he served as the Rabbi of the Neve Tzedek neighborhood and the community of Chassidim in Tel Aviv. He was close to the Rabbi of Tshebin, Rabbi Aharon of Belz and the Chazon Ish – (see Pe'er Hador, Part 4, page 191: a photocopy of a response of the Chazon Ish to Rabbi Hollander). Some of his novellas were printed in the book Shem Cohen, Responsa and Sermon, Maharsham Cohen on the Torah and many articles. [Many things were written in his name in the series of books "M'Gedolei HaTorah V'HaChassidut and in other books].
Rabbi Ya'akov Berson (perished in the Holocaust), Rabbi of Lentchna. See his approbation on Metek Sefatayim, Lublin 1937.
18 volumes, c. 35 cm. General good condition. A few volumes have damages of several leaves (In Tractate Bava Kama, missing leaves were completed from a different edition). The notes are written in ink or pencil. Uniform black covers for all volumes with margin cuts that damaged a significant amount of the notes.
Talmud, Mishnayot and Pirkei Avot
Talmud, Mishnayot and Pirkei Avot