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Bidding Information
Lot #    14552
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 10:52:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Hespeida
Title (Hebrew)    הספדא
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Arye Leib Zuenz
City    Vienna
Publisher    Anton Schmidt
Publication Date    1793
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 15 ff., 169:107 mm., light age staining, nice margins. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards. Very rare - no copy in major collections; CD-EPI record based on private copy.
          
Detailed
Description		    Eulogy for R. Ezekiel Landau by R. Arye Leib b. Moses Zuenz (1768-1833) Polish rabbi and author. R. Zuenz was a descendant of Leib Zuenz (17th century) who served as rabbi of Holleschau and Pinczow, where Aryeh Leib was born. His great perspicacity was recognized when he was young, and he became known as Leib Harif ("sharp-witted"). He lived in Prague and in Bratislava, and was appointed rabbi of Plotsk. He later went to Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, where he served as rabbi for two years. However, he relinquished this position when he was appointed the head of a yeshivah in the town. A prolific writer, 21 of his books were published and frequently reprinted. After he directed that the inscription on his tombstone should state that he would intercede in Heaven on behalf of anyone who published his books, many Jews came forward to publish them. His works were highly valued in Poland because of their extreme subtlety and pilpulistic method. Most of his books are on the Talmud and on the Shulhan Arukh; most important are: Ayyelet Ahavim (2 pts., 1888–1891) on Ketubbot; Get Mekushar (Warsaw, 1812) which discusses the ordering of get and halizah and has a commentary, Tiv Gittin; Simhat Yom Tov (1841) on Bezah; Gur Aryeh (1943) on Hullin; and Geresh Yerahim (1870) on Gittin. He also wrote original interpretations of the Pentateuch, responsa, and sermons.
          
Paragraph 2    והוא יקרא דשכבי להרב... יחזקאל סגל ז"ל לנדא אשר שכב ונפטר בקיץ זה שנת תקנ"ג והספיד אותו... מ' ארי' ליב מפינטשוב (המביא הספר... לבית הדפוס... ש"ב [שאר בשרו]... פינחס זעליג בן מוהר"ר צבי הירש הלוי)... לפרט א'ל'י' מ'ל'כ'י' ב'ק'ו'ד'ש'

עם "הקדמה" של המביא לבית הדפוס, קרובו של הנספד.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0160881; EJ; A. Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Hadash, 1 (1864), p. 429, no. 23; S. Chones, Toledot ha-Posekim (1910), p. 141.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Other:    Eulogies
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica