Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Pre-Holocaust Books Incompletely Printed – Hungary, 1943

Opening: $120
Sold for: $300
Including buyer's premium
1. Keter Torah, Bereshit combinations, hints for the 613 commandments in the word “Bereshit”. Rabbi Yehoshua Weiss from Honiad. Marghita, (1943). Only edition. “Approbations of genius and righteous rabbis of his village”. At end of last issue the publisher, Rabbi Zvi Moskovitz added a printed note: “Never printed again as the manuscript was lost during the years of the war and the author passed away”.
48 pages, 21.5 cm. Good condition, unbound.
2. Mishnayot, including Tiferet Yisrael, Seder Mo’ed first part. [Gyarmat -Budapest, c. 1943].
Printed as individual pamphlets, the following are the first pamphlets which include the forwards “Kalkalat Shabbat, Kupat HaRochlim, Shvilei Derakia” and the first Mishnah from Shabbat tractate, [on page 4 notice of the publisher Moshe Chaim Steiner: “…each week two pamphlets are released from the press… and frankly I must say that I have printed few… since the expense of the print is great and it is difficult to obtain the paper”].
6, 40, 2 pages. 31.5 cm. Very good condition. Issues uncut. New cloth binding.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman’s private collection.
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