Auction 19 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Manuscript by Rabbi Yisrael Isser Tauber - Disciple of the Chatam Sofer

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Manuscripts of sermons and Chiddushei Torah, 1863-1895. Ir-Chadash [Neustadt].
Autographic writing of a journal which was written over a span of many years containing summaries of sermons and eulogies, by Rabbi Yechiel Isser Tauber, who served as Dayan and Maggid in Ir-Chadash and its vicinity for fifty years. The names of the settlements in which he delivered the sermons appear throughout the journal (Ir-Chadash, Boskovice, Mehrish-Leskof, Old Tura, Lubina, Brezova and many other places).
Includes: Sermons for birthday of the majestic emperor "Caesar Franz Joseph" on August 8th.
Eulogy from 1864 on Rabbi David Katz Bistritz Av Beit Din of Milchdorf and Rabbi Eliezer Prosnitz Dayan in Tapalshan; eulogy on Rabbi Pesach Frankel who served as Halachic authority in Ir-Chadash and in the adjacent settlements; eulogy on Rabbi Shlomo Kluger in 1869; eulogy from 1876 on Rabbi Chaim Halberstam Av Beit Din of Nowy Sִ…cz and Rabbi Avraham Zwebner Av Beit Din of Kobersdorf who immigrated to Jerusalem; includes Chiddushei Torah in the name of the Divrei Chaim regarding the Sugia "Reicha Milta"; eulogy on Rabbi [Avraham] Av Beit Din of Boskovice and the state.
The Ga'on Rabbi Yisrael Isser Tauber (1823-1904, The Chatam Sofer and His Disciples, pages 275-276), son of rabbinical family in Galanta. From age 13 studied in the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer and by the Yeriot Shlomo in Mako, son-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Leib Koenig in Ir-Chadash, and from 1852 was appointed Dayan and Maggid in the city. Authored the books Ezrach Ra'anan and Mekor Yisrael.
Approx. 158 pages in crowded writing. 19.5 cm. Good condition, minor stains and wear. Unbound.
The author's handwriting varies throughout the years, until 1895 where his writings were written in shaky and unsteady handwriting. [The last article was written in the month of Elul 1895 in extremely unsteady handwriting and from there on dozens of leaves remained blank].
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