Auction 41
Lot 155:
Ir HaTzedek, “history of the rabbis of Krakow and the roshei yeshiva from 1500 to 1856, stories of their lives and their bibliographies and a few sources on the Jewish communities, based on existing material, from Yehiel Matityahu Tzunz. [4], [3], 75, 190, X pages. Front binding only, detached, tear at the edge of the title page, stains, overall good condition.
The body of the work has 2 handwritten notes from Rabbi Haim Berlin.
Rabbi Haim Berlin of Volozhin was the son of the Natziv. He served as Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and as the most famous Rosh Yeshiva in the world, of the Volozhin yeshiva (known as the Mother of Yeshivot). In 1906 he moved to Jerusalem, and after the death of Rabbi Shmuel of Salant he became leader of the Ashkenazi Eida in Jerusalem, even though he refused the official position.
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