Auction 48

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Panim Me’irot, Shut and Chiddushim on Gittin. First edition, Zulzbach 1733. Foundational work, copy owned by the Admor of Skierniewice.

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Shut, chiddushim, and exegeses from the second section of the work by Rabbi Meir the Av Beit Din and Ram in Eisenstadt, called the Maharam Ash. Stefanski Sifrei Yesod #306. Filed as rare by the National Library. New, pretty binding, moth holes and damage, repaired title page, red page cuttings, overall fair to good condition.

Stamps of ownership: “Yosef Zvi Kalish, Avdak of Kortshov and the district of Skierniewice”.


Rabbi Yosef Zvi Kalish (1885-1957) was the son of Rabbi Shimon of Skierniewice, grandson of Rabbi Yitzhak of Worka. After his father’s death in 1927 he succeeded him as Admor of Skierniewice. In 1935 he moved to Israel and was appointed Rabbi of Bnei Brak, where there were many Skierniewice chassidim who had immigrated already during his father’s reign and who included founders of Bnei Brak.

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