Collection of manuscript leaves, Talmudic novellae, handwritten by the Neolog rabbi Löw (Leib) Schwab. Gewitsch, (Jevíčko, present day: Czech republic), 1816-1828.
One leaf is dated beginning of winter 1816-1817, in Gewitsch, and signed "Leib Schwab". Another is dated 1828.
R. [Yehuda] Leib (Löw) Schwab (1794-1857), disciple of R. Mordechai Banet and student in the Chatam Sofer's yeshiva. He also acquired a secular education, and much to the displeasure of his teachers, he became the first maskilic rabbi of Moravia, serving as rabbi of several communities, including Gewitsch, Prossnitz and Pest, where he was very active in promoting emancipation and assimilation in the surrounding society.
The present leaves were found in the notebook of sermons of R. Leopold Löw (see next item), who was a disciple of R. Schwab in Prossnitz and later married his daughter Leontine.
[19] written leaves. Approx. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear.
• Two handwritten leaves enclosed, passages from a sermon on charity and lovingkindness, presumably also handwritten by Schwab.

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