Auction 56

Sefer LaKedoshim BaAretz, by Rabbi David Zion Laniado. Biographies and gravestone phrasings from Israel, Babylon, and Aleppo. Jerusalem 1935-1952

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Sefer LaKedoshim BaAretz, by Rabbi David Zion Laniado, the rabbi of the Kfar Shalem neighborhood and a gadol among researchers on Syrian Judaism.
First edition, Jerusalem.


At the beginning of the work is a poem on the maalah of Aleppo: “a beautiful land from which the kol Torah has never ceased.” The book includes wordings from gravestones of Sfardi sages in Israel, Damascus, Salonika, Izmir, and much other historical material on the generations of Sfardi Jewry.

Section 3 was printed in Jerusalem in 1935, and later the author attached the other sections.

[2], 8, 16, 40, 176, 96, 80 pages.
Worming holes, detached leaves, good condition.