Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Jerusalemite Talmud – Kodshim (Forged) – both sections in magnificently unique copy, with bibliographically unknown pages
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Jerusalemite Talmud (forged) – Kodshim, Cheshek Shlomo commentary, by the publisher Shlomo Yehudah ben Maharam Ha-Sephardi who is referred to as Friedlander. Section one: Zvachim-Erchin, Section two: Chulin-Bchorot. Seini, 1907-1909.
Especially magnificent copy, printed on high quality paper, magnificent binding with leather spine.
The Jerusalemite Talmud on Seder Kodshim was lost in the Rishonim's period, and was never printed. In the beginning of the 20th century, a man named Shlomo Friedlander (who also adopted for himself the false identity of a descendant of the Spanish Algazi family) copied, with great talent, all of the citations from Kodshim-Jerusalemite found in works of the Rishonim, together with citations from different Sedarim. He then publicized that he had found an antique manuscript of the missing Jerusalemite Talmud, which was lost in the Rishonim's time.
This forgery mislead most of the rabbis and researchers of his time; including the Maharsham, who even wrote glosses to the book which were published in all its parts; the Chafetz Chaim, who began to wear Rabeinu Tam Tefillin based upon this forged Talmud, and more. At the same time, there were rabbis of very sharp perception such as the Kli Chemda and the Rogachover Ga'on, who discovered the forgery and publicized it. The polemic over the Jerusalemite Talmud lasted for several years, and books were printed expressing both sides of the argument, (most of the publications siding with the Jerusalemite were written by Friedlander himself, under different names). After the forgery was confirmed, most of the copies were buried.
Many essays were written regarding the forgery; see the Bibliography Institute CD, record no. 0308377.
This unique copy includes additional details such as a photocopy of the manuscript beyond the first title page of the first section, as well as the printed title-covers; The Jerusalemite is on the entire Erchin tractate although according to the Bibliography Institute CD only one page was printed.
Volume one: [1 title cover], [8], 100 leaves, [1 back cover]. Volume two: [10], 78; [1], 47 leaves. 36 cm. High quality paper, wide margins, very good condition, magnificent binding with leather spine and corners, rubbed out and damaged.
Very rare. Many variant changes from the copies listed in the Bibliography Institute CDs.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman’s private collection.
Especially magnificent copy, printed on high quality paper, magnificent binding with leather spine.
The Jerusalemite Talmud on Seder Kodshim was lost in the Rishonim's period, and was never printed. In the beginning of the 20th century, a man named Shlomo Friedlander (who also adopted for himself the false identity of a descendant of the Spanish Algazi family) copied, with great talent, all of the citations from Kodshim-Jerusalemite found in works of the Rishonim, together with citations from different Sedarim. He then publicized that he had found an antique manuscript of the missing Jerusalemite Talmud, which was lost in the Rishonim's time.
This forgery mislead most of the rabbis and researchers of his time; including the Maharsham, who even wrote glosses to the book which were published in all its parts; the Chafetz Chaim, who began to wear Rabeinu Tam Tefillin based upon this forged Talmud, and more. At the same time, there were rabbis of very sharp perception such as the Kli Chemda and the Rogachover Ga'on, who discovered the forgery and publicized it. The polemic over the Jerusalemite Talmud lasted for several years, and books were printed expressing both sides of the argument, (most of the publications siding with the Jerusalemite were written by Friedlander himself, under different names). After the forgery was confirmed, most of the copies were buried.
Many essays were written regarding the forgery; see the Bibliography Institute CD, record no. 0308377.
This unique copy includes additional details such as a photocopy of the manuscript beyond the first title page of the first section, as well as the printed title-covers; The Jerusalemite is on the entire Erchin tractate although according to the Bibliography Institute CD only one page was printed.
Volume one: [1 title cover], [8], 100 leaves, [1 back cover]. Volume two: [10], 78; [1], 47 leaves. 36 cm. High quality paper, wide margins, very good condition, magnificent binding with leather spine and corners, rubbed out and damaged.
Very rare. Many variant changes from the copies listed in the Bibliography Institute CDs.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman’s private collection.
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