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Bidding Information
Lot #    11801
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 12:04:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Maharam Esh
Title (Hebrew)    ספר שאלות ותשובות אמרי אש
Author    [First Ed.] R. Meir Eisenstadter
City    Lemberg
Publisher    M.F. Poremba
Publication Date    1852
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [3], 82 ff., 351:224 mm., wide crisp margins, usual light age staining, old hands. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Meir b. Judah Leib Eisenstadter (d. 1852), rabbi, author, and liturgical poet (paytan). R. Eisenstadter was born in Schossberg (Sastin), but in his youth moved to Eisenstadt, from which he took his name. He was also known as "Maharam Esh" (Hebrew acronym for Morenu ha-Rav Meir Eisenshtadt, "our teacher, the rabbi Eisenstadter"). He studied under R. Moses Sofer and married the daughter of R. David Deutsch, the rabbi of Nove Mesto in Slovakia, where R. Eisenstadter was appointed head of the yeshivah. After serving as rabbi in Baja, Balassagyarmat (1815–1835), he was appointed rabbi of Ungvar in 1835 and was regarded, together with R. Moses Schick, as the leading rabbi of Hungary. In Ungvar, too, he headed a large yeshivah and many of the future rabbis of Hungary were his pupils. He took an active part in the communal life of Hungarian Jewry and exercised a profound influence on the course it was to take. He vehemently opposed the progressives who desired to introduce religious changes and reforms. He was the author of Imrei Esh, responsa in two parts (1852–64); Imrei Yosher, sermons (Ungvar, 1864); Imrei Binah, novellae on a number of tractates (1866), and, with the same title, his novellae and those of his son on the laws of shehitah, appended to R. A. Z. Schorr's Simlah Hadashah (1927); Imrei Esh, in two parts, expositions of the Pentateuch with the novellae of his father-in-law and his son (1901); and Zikhron Yehudah, containing his testament and novellae (1900). The greatest rabbis of Hungary and Galicia including R. Solomon Kluger of Brod, R. Hayyim Halberstam of Neu-Sandec (Nowy Sacz), and R. Simon Sofer of Cracow addressed problems to him.
          
Paragraph 2    ... אשר השיב ... ר' מאיר זצלה"ה בן ... ר' יודא ליב א"ש זלה"ה אשר היה מלפנים אב"ד ור"מ בק"ק בייאה ובק"ק יארמוט ... ואח"ז בק"ק אונגוואר ... ושם מנוחתו כבוד. הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י ... בני [המחבר, ר' מנחם ור' יהודא] ... חלק א. שנת מ'א'י'ר' א'"ש' ה'כ'"מ' לפ"ג [תרי"ב].

הסכמות: ר' יחזקאל בנעט, נייטרא, - חלק א ור' אברהם שמואל בנימין סופר, פרעסבורג. - חלק א חלק א: על או"ח ויו"ד. דף עו, ב - עח, א: חידושי בן המחבר, ר' חיים ז"ל.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0120525; EJ; H. Y. Braun, Toledot Gedolei Yisrael Anshei Shem (1943), 1–12; J. Spiegel, in: Arim ve-Immahot be-Yisrael, 4 (1950), 9–12; S. Reinhasz, in: Enziklopedyah shel Galuyyot, 7 (1959), 403–10.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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