Sefer Toldot Avraham, chiddushim on masechet Kiddushin and Ketubot, by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Brody, Av Beit Din of Prague, Metz, and Frankfurt-am-Mein. Together with the book Kutonet Yosef by his son-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Moshe Breslau. 2, 61 leaves in the original—this copy ends on leaf 57 (missing the four last leaves). Old, worn binding with tape on the spine. Stains and worming holes, some wear. Binding and leaves detached. Overall fair condition.
The back of the front binding has a signature of “the holy Simcha Bamberger Segel”, and an exciting handwritten note: "This book was given to me by my sister, Mrs. Rachel [may she live to 120] as a bar mitzvah present on Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach ‘to study Torah’ (a phrase perhaps referring to the year 1851), the holy Moshe Aryeh ben … Yitzhak Dov HaLevi…”. Additional signature in pencil on the title page, partially erased: “the holy Aharon ben …”.
This book was owned by three children of the Bamberger family, sons of the gaon Rabbi Yitzhak Dov Bamberger, rabbi of Wurzburg. In the beginning it seems to have been owned by Rabbi Simcha Bamberger (see below), then his elder sister Rachel Rivka, who was married to Rabbi Pinchas Seligman Fromm, rabbi of Bad-Hamburg. She gave it as a bar mitzvah present to her younger brother Rabbi Moshe Aryeh (see below).
Rabbi Simcha (Simon) Bamberger of Aschaffenburg was the son of Rabbi Yitzhak Dov Bamberger of Wurzburg, father of Rabbi Yitzhak Sekel Bamberger, the district rabbi of Bad Kissingen, Bavaria.
Rabbi Moshe Aryeh HaLevi Bamberger (1838-1900), rabbi of Bad-Kissingen (Bavaria, Germany) for around 25 years. Sixth son of the Wurzberg rabbi, Rabbi Yitzhak Dov Bamberger, and son-in-law (first marriage) to Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger, author of the Aruch LaNer. He worked printing his father’s works with his brother Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Bamberger, Av Beit Din of Senheim.
