Sefer HaChassidim, by R. Yehuda HeChassid, with a concise commentary. [Zhovkva? ca. 1840].
Many signatures, stamps and ownership inscriptions on the title page and flyleaves, recording the book's chain of provenance. One of the book's owners was R. Shimon Grünfeld Rabbi of Semihaly, the Maharshag, who signed it twice. The book also bears a dedication handwritten and signed by the Maharshag.
Signatures: "Reuven Chaim", "Binyamin Eliezer Kalman son of the late Reuven Chaim", "The bottom [signee] has won [it], Shimon Grünfeld of Chust", "Shimon Grünfeld of Chust", "I presented it as a wedding gift to my disciple R. Shlomo Eliezer, Shimon Grünfeld of Chust", "I received this book as a gift from the young Torah scholar R. Shimon Grünfeld of Chust, Shlomo Eliezer Bleier, 1882", "Shlomo Eliezer Bleier of Velykyi Bereznyi" (the book also bears his stamps), "Shmuel Ze'ev Bleier".
R. Shimon Grünfeld – the Maharshag (1860-1930), a leading Hungarian rabbi, was a disciple of the Kol Aryeh, the Maharam Schick and the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. He served as dayan in Munkacs, and from 1907, as rabbi and dean in Semihaly (Bűdszentmihály), a position he held for several decades. He was considered one of the leading halachic authorities in Hungary (in his times people would say that there are three leading rabbis in Hungary: the Maharshag, R. Yeshaya Silberstein of Waitzen and R. Mordechai Winkler author of Levushei Mordechai). Many Hungarian rabbis were his disciples. He left over two thousand halachic responsa, most of which were published in the three parts of Responsa Maharshag.
[86] leaves. 22.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Marginal creases. Marginal tears to first and last two leaves, repaired. Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. New leather binding.
This edition is based on the Zhovkva 1775 edition.
Year of publication as listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, no. 302221. The NLI lists: [Russia-Poland, 183-].