Auction 48
Lot 105:
Dedication handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger. The page is written in Rashi/block script “May my wish be fulfilled—and perhaps as a benefactor of his heart he will choose to hold a print like this and in this the right of many for generations depends on him.” Stamp of “Machzikei Dat in Israel.” Size 10.4×8.5cm. Tears at the edges without damage to the text, stains, overall good condition.
Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger (1838-1922) was a noted Orthodox Jewish rabbi who served as the rabbinical leader of what was then Pressburg, Hungary but what is now Bratislava, Slovakia. He was the son of Rabbi Yehiel, a student of the Chatam Sofer. He was active in encouraging the building of the Land of Israel and he encouraged the purchase of land for building and agriculture. He was a student of the Katav Sofer, the Maharam Shik, and the Machaneh Chayim.
He was son-in-law of Rabbi Hillel Liechtenstein of Kolomiya, the Maskil El Dal. Like his father-in-law, he attacked the modernization movement among Orthodoxy in Hungary, and his well-known work “Lev HaIvri” (abbreviating his name) is on this subject.
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