Auction 76 - The Gaon of Vilna and his Disciples: Books and Manuscripts from the Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection
Five Polemic Books – Chassidim and Mitnagdim
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Five books concerning the polemic between Chassidim and Mitnagdim, including three editions of Vikucha Rabba – fictional dialogue between a Chassid and Mitnaged.
1. Vikucha Rabba. Munkacs, 1894.
2. Vikucha Rabba. Piotrkow, [1912].
3. Vikucha Rabba. Piotrkow, 1928.
4. Der Vilner Gaon, Der Gaystiger Fihrer fun Misnagdim [The Gaon of Vilna, Spiritual Leader of the Mitnagdim], by Peretz Wiernik. New York, 1906. Yiddish.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 1037.
5. Der Vilner Gaon, Der Gaystiger Fihrer fun Misnagdim [The Gaon of Vilna, Spiritual Leader of the Mitnagdim], by Peretz Wiernik. New York [1920s?]. Yiddish.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 1038.
Vikucha Rabba was authored by R. Yaakov of Keidan, and contains a fictional exchange of letters between two men regarding the prayer texts of the Arizal and the customs and ways of Chassidut. The title page ascribes this argument to two figures: R. Binyamin Ze'ev of Slonim, disciple of the Gaon of Vilna, and R. Yosef of Nemirov, disciple of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. The book defends the Chassidic movement.
5 books. Size and condition vary. Various owners' stamps.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
1. Vikucha Rabba. Munkacs, 1894.
2. Vikucha Rabba. Piotrkow, [1912].
3. Vikucha Rabba. Piotrkow, 1928.
4. Der Vilner Gaon, Der Gaystiger Fihrer fun Misnagdim [The Gaon of Vilna, Spiritual Leader of the Mitnagdim], by Peretz Wiernik. New York, 1906. Yiddish.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 1037.
5. Der Vilner Gaon, Der Gaystiger Fihrer fun Misnagdim [The Gaon of Vilna, Spiritual Leader of the Mitnagdim], by Peretz Wiernik. New York [1920s?]. Yiddish.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 1038.
Vikucha Rabba was authored by R. Yaakov of Keidan, and contains a fictional exchange of letters between two men regarding the prayer texts of the Arizal and the customs and ways of Chassidut. The title page ascribes this argument to two figures: R. Binyamin Ze'ev of Slonim, disciple of the Gaon of Vilna, and R. Yosef of Nemirov, disciple of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. The book defends the Chassidic movement.
5 books. Size and condition vary. Various owners' stamps.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
Polemic Between Chassidim and Mitnagdim
Polemic Between Chassidim and Mitnagdim