Auction 55
Lot 169:
Sefer Kerem HaZvi, a collection of chiddushim and exegeses on the Pesach Haggadah by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Farber, an elder of the London rabbinical community. First edition. [6], 128, [1] pages. The National Library states that there is supposed to be a portrait of the author—missing in this copy—but to us it does not appear to be lacking from the copy. In addition, this copy has a final leaf which does not appear in their copy. Overall good condition.
Dedication on the binding leaf handwritten and signed by the author, to “students of the Machon HaDrush excelling in Torah and Yirat Hashem at the Etz Chaim yeshiva in Israel…”
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Farber, the Kerem Zvi (1879-1967) was the son of Yehuda Leib of Slobodka. He studied under: Rabbi Yitzhak Elhanan in Kovna, Rabbi Yitzhak Belzer, Rabbi Moshe Danishevsky, Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam. He was rabbi in Kalikol-the Kovna district, in 1907. He later immigrated to England and served in the Etz Haim yeshiva in London, and Ram in the Manchester yeshiva (led by Rabbi Menachem Dov Danotzky). In 1910 he was appointed rabbi of a community in London. He was a founder and head of the Rabbinical Assembly in London. He authored Eshet Chayil and more, as well as many articles in journals of the period.
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