Auction 70
Lot 199:
Sefer Yad Yosef Veravid Hazahav, on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim Hilchot Shabbat and Eruvin (Pesach Yom Tov). Yad Yosef is a summary of the words of the Paskim and Chidushei Dinim "I found in Rishonim and Acharonim… and Ravid Hazahav is the Pilpul section… that I authored" by Rabbi Yosef Josefow ben… Menachem Zvi Rosenberg". Section I. Single edition. Pressburg, 1863.
With approbations by the holy Gaon Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, Rabbi Menachem ben Rabbi Meir Esh (Eisenstadt) of Ungvar, Rabbi Yirmiya ben Rabbi Binyamin [Wolf Low] of Ohel and Rabbi Aharon David Deutsch of Yarmat.
37 cm. [2], 131; 30 leaves. Stains and some blemishes. Good overall condition. Worn binding, detached and taped.
On the title page of the book, a foreign ownership stamp of Rabbi Moshe Kalman of Celldömölk, Western Hungary and a dedication handwritten and signed by Rabbi Zecharya Halevi Pollacj Av Beit Din of Nagyoroszi [see below] and with his stamp: "למזכרת אהבה ליד ידידי מחותני היקר… מוה’ משה קאלמאן… מק"ק ב’ יארמעט…".
Rabbi Zecharya Halevi Pollack (perished in 1944) the son of Rabbi Avrahamhalevi Pollack of Ohel (the grandson of Rabbi Zekel Pollack of Bonyhad and brother-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer of Paks). A disciple of Rabbi Shimshon Altman of Paks. After the passing of his in-law, Rabbi Yitzchak Lorentz, succeeded him as Av Beit Din of Nagyoroszi (Northern Hungary) and as a Rosh Yeshiva there. In 1938, he was arrested with the other leaders of the community and sent to Budapest. After his release, he remained in nearby Balassagyarmat. He led the community there until Sivan 1944, when they were all sent to Auschwitz.
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