Auction 62
Lot 147:
Sefer Pirchei Aharon, "a collection of articles with Divrei Torah and many subjects from the varied sciences, many of which were already published in Hebrew anthologies and Hebrew and English journals…" by Rabbi Aharon Dobrozhinsky, who calls himself on the title page "one of the residents of Newark". Part of the book is in Yiddish.
Published by Rabbi Chanoch Henich Plotzky, the son of the Gaon the Kli Chemda. First edition and apparently, the only one and in the author’s lifetime – Piotrkow, 1928. [1] leaf, 3, 32, 111, [2] pp. on one end. On the other, the English part with an additional English title page and the pagination: 34, [2] pp.
At its beginning, a picture of the author, sitting in a chair with the majestic appearance of a Jewish Rav.
At its end, Sefer Hazikaron, a eulogy for the Gaon Rabbi Meir Dan Raphael Plotzky of Ostroveh – Poland, the author of Kli Chemda. Original printed binding, partly detached. Good overall condition.
Appearing on the (detached) flyleaf, a lengthy dedication handwritten and signed by the author Rabbi Aharon Dobrozhinsky alongside his official stamp. The dedication is addressed, after many superlatives and expressions of love, to Rabbi Moshe Shimon Zivitz Rosh Av Beit Din of Pittsburg and the vicinity.
Inside the book. several handwritten glosses.
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