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Lot #		12091
Auction End Date		11/1/2005 11:29:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

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Title (English)

Several works with dedication letter

Title (Hebrew)

קדושת השם, ברכת יוסף, ראשי אלפי ישראל, תקופה חדשה

Author

[Ms.] R. Joseph Shapotshnick

City

London

Publication Date

1914-18

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Physical
Description

80; [1], 19-36; 32; 32; 32; 32; 26?; 32; 28, [4]; [2], 31-44; [2], 30; 32; 16; 16; 32; 16; 16; 20; [2], 21-24 [i.e. 42]; [1], 43-64 pp., 205:134 mm., usual light browning. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth boards, rubbed.

Paragraph 1

Included is a letter by the Author's widow, dated November 4, 1938, offering to sell the book so that she may collect sufficient funds to erect a memorial stone for her late husband.

Detailed
Description

Kedushat HaShem (1918, Express), second edition, not in CD-EPI. A kabbalistic work it discusses the sanctity of the G-d's name and their applications.

Birkat Joseph, part II of II only, (c. 1917, Gibraltar Press) the author states on the title that the first edition printed in Odessa 1902 has disintegrated and only one copy survives.

Roshei Alphe Yisrael, periodicals, issues 2, 3, 4, 6, 7(inc.), 8, 9, suppl of 10, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17. Torah journal addressing varied subjects; the contributors include a number of prominent English rabbis. The text is primarily in Hebrew with some Yiddish.

Tekupha Hadasha be-Yisrael, (1914) pedagogal periodical only three issues published. Issue one may lacks 2 introductory pp.

R. Joseph Shapotshnick, a Talmudic scholar, emmigrated from Kishnev and Odessa to England, where he settled in the East End of London in 1913. He took upon himself the title of Chief Rabbi, and conducted himself in such a manner that he soon came into conflict with the recognized establishment, that is, the Chief Rabbi and his Bet Din, as well as more right wing rabbis. His support of hopeless causes brought him into conflict with established authority and made him a colorful figure in his day. Among his opponents was R. Samuel Hillman, Dayan of the United Synagogue, who referred to Shapotshnick as a madman in correspondence with such prominent Eastern European rabbis as R. Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski of Vilna. The latter responded with a proclamation, signed by hundreds of rabbis, opposing Shapotshnick. In response, Shapotshnick published “Original Letters Received from World Famous Rabbinical Authorities Recognizing Chief Rabbi . . . Shapotshnick as one of the Greatest Talmudic Scholars. . .” He was a prolific writer, his works encompassing a wide variety of subjects, from Kabbalah and responsa to science and psychology.

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הוא פירוש על שם הוי"ה ... מאת יוסף שאפאטשניק החופ"ק לאנדאן ...

ברכת יוסף המחבר ... >כעת חופ"ק לאנדאן< ... חדושי מהר"ם מ"ש >כעת הוא מכונה בשם "מגד תבואות שמ"ש"< ... הוצאה שניה ...

ראשי אלפי ישראל הוא מאסף ספרותי לתורה וחכמה דת ודעת, מאת יוסף שאפאטשניק החופ"ק לאנדאן ... ורבני וגדולי עמנו, להשיב לב אחינו בני ישראל לאביהם שבשמים ... יוצא לאור ארבעה פעמים בשנה, בחדש אלול ... כסלו ... אדר ... סיון. כרך א-17.

עברית ויידיש. כמעט כל התוכן מאת שאפוצ'ניק עצמו. חוברות 17-12 נדפסו ללא שער. לדברי המחבר-המו"ל, חוברות 17-14, שבשעריהן פרט של תרע"ט, נדפסו לאמיתו של דבר בשנת תרע"ח.

תקופה חדשה בישראל ירחון פדגוגי). ע"פ דרך התלמוד וההגיון ולפי רוח הזמן, והוא מורה דרך למורים ולמלמדים ולתלמידיהם, ומחנך את הנער על פי הדת והדעת. מאת יוסף בהר"ב ... מהרי"ל זצוק"ל שאפאהטשניק ... (שנה א), 3-1.

(1: ניסן). דפוס ר' מזין. 2: (אייר-סיון). דפוס "עקספרעסס". 3: (תמוז-אב). דפוס "עקספרעסס". לא יצא יותר?

Reference
Description

BE 118; Dunner, Rebel Rabbi; Rabinowicz, A World Apart: The Story of the Chasidim in Britain (1997) pp.56-66; Roth Anglo-Judaica p. 191; CD-EPI 0168414, 0168434; 0168443

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