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Lot #    17387
Auction End Date    3/13/2007 12:30:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Minhat Aharon
Title (Hebrew)    מנחת אהרן
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Aaron Milevsky
City    Montevideo, Uruguay
Publisher    Margulis
Publication Date    1941
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [7], [7 insert], 106, [2] pp., folio 280:187 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    First Hebrew book printed in Montevideo, Uruguay.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae and responsa from R. Aaron Milevsky, head of the Jewish community in Montevideo, Uruguay. There is a leaf with approbations from R. A. I. Kook, R. Epstein, R. Isser Zalman Melzer, and R. Sajungos, possibly received late, as it is a smaller size than the rest of the book and not bound in. There is a miktav beracha from R. Zevi ha-Kohen Kalin of Buenos Aires and R. Isaac Solomon Algazi of the Sephardi community in Montevideo in which the initial letter of each line spells out Aaron Milevsky. In his preface R. Milevsky notes that this is not all that he has written, followed by a list of the book’s sponsors, a dedication to R. Milevsky’s father, and the text. Part one is the novellae on various tractates and part two nineteen responsa. At the end of Minhat Aharon is a detailed index of the novellae and responsa. Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay. Approximately 96% of the Jewish population of Uruguay resides in the capital.. The community was established before World War I by immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Beginning in the lower echelons of commerce and handicrafts, the Jews today belong chiefly to the middle class, with a substantial proportion in industry, commerce, and the liberal professions; few still belong to the working class. The main organization is the Comitee Central Israilita (Jewish Central Committee), which incorporates the four kehillot: Jewish community of Montevideo (Ashkenazi), the Sephardi Jewish community, the New Jewish Congregation of Montevideo (Eastern and Central Europe), and the Hungarian Jewish community, along with most of the other organizations, except those of Communist ideology and affiliations. Another central body is the Zionist Organization of Uruguay, which represents all the local Zionist organizations. Although the object of anti-Semitic propaganda during the 1930s and the victim of some attacks during the early 1960s, the Jews of Montevideo were not the target of urban terrorism launched in the 1960s by the extreme-left Tupamaru. Economic deterioration and social upheavals, however, severely affected the stability of the Jewish community.
          
Paragraph 2    חידושים ותשובות... [מאת] אהרן בהרמ"א מילבסקי, הרב הראשי של הקהלה העברית במונטיווידיאו, מלפנים רב בעיר המחוזית אליטוס, ליטא...

הסכמות: ר' זאב צבי הכהן קליין, בוענאס איירעס, א לך לך תש"א; ר' יצחק שלמה אלגאזי, מונטווידיאו, כב שבט תש"א.

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0147867
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica