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Lot #    19288
Auction End Date    11/13/2007 11:21:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer Mareh Kohen, Mahadura Tanyune
Title (Hebrew)    מראה כהן - מהדורא תנינא
Author    [Polemic] Shemaria Menashe ha-Kohen Adler
City    London
Publisher    I. Gorditsky
Publication Date    1928
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 12 ff., 15 pp., 134 ff., 213:136 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa attacking R. Joseph Shapotshnick by R. Shemariah Manasseh ha-Kohen Adler (1874-1959) was a brilliant Talmudic scholar and the author of numerous rabbinic works, most of which were polemical in content. Originally from Poland, he hailed from the distinguished Adler family whose members included Rabbi Nathan ha-Kohen Adler, mentor of the Chatam Sofer, and also Chief Rabbis Nathan and Hermann Adler of London. In 1915, after a short and unsuccessful stay in Germany, Adler moved to England with his family where he quickly became a part of the small but thriving ultra-Orthodox community that was concentrated in London's East End. During the period of the First World War Adler became acquainted with R. Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook, who was stuck in London as a result of being unable to return to Palestine. They became very close friends, and Adler wrote a commentary on R. Kook's sole London publication, the kabbalistic work Rosh Millin. During this period, R. Adler was briefly thrown into jail as an illegal immigrant, although he was convinced that his arrest had been orchestrated by the head of the Chief Rabbi's Beth Din, R. Samuel Isaac Hillman. Whether this was true or not, it was the catalyst for R. Adler's unrelenting campaign of vitriol against R. Hillman and the community establishment that was to last for decades. Over the years that followed R. Adler published book after book that scrutinized and criticized every aspect of Britain's Jewish communal life, and he was a strident critic of the rabbinic leadership and the level of observance even among those who considered themselves ultra-Orthodox. Often R. Adler would involve European luminaries with whom he was acquainted, and in particular he corresponded frequently and amicably with R. Joseph Rosin of Dvinsk - the 'Rogatchover' - whom he held in the highest esteem. After World War Two, estranged from both the community and his family, R. Adler moved to a boarding house in Dorking, outside London. The proprietor, Rabbi Dr. Hayyim Kohn, was a bibliophile with an enormous library and there R. Adler immersed himself in learning and writing, producing numerous books that challenged hitherto accepted communal practices. During his latter years R. Adler became a hermit, rarely venturing from his room and often refusing to attend Sabbath services even if he was needed to make up a quorum. From Dorking R. Adler moved to Westcliff, and finally to Brighton, where he died in 1959. He is buried in Israel.
          
Paragraph 2    ... בבירור הלכות מפוזרות בש"ס ופוסקים. ונלוה אליו קונטרס מרור דרבנן לפרסם ולהודיע פרצות ... בית דין דק"ק לונדון והמדינה ובית דין דק"ק מאנשעסטער עם פרצות הכופר והמתיר יוסף שאפאטשניק ...

דף ג,ב-ז,ב: "מכתבי תעודה מגדולי זמנינו על ספרי מראה כהן קמא": ר' מאיר יחיאל הלוי [הלשטאק], אסטראווצי, ה אמור תרפ"ב; ר' מאיר אריק אבד"ק בוטשאטש, ווין, בין כסה לעשור תרפ"ב; ר' מנחם דוד טעמקין, פיעטרקוב, צום גדליה תרפ"ב; ר' אברהם מענדל הלוי שטיינבערג אבד"ק בראדי, וויען ו בראשית תרפ"ב; ר' יואב יהושע, קינצק, מוצאי שבת קדש[?] תרפ"ב; ר' דוד צבי האפמאן, בערלין, ג אלול תרפ"א; ר' מאיר דן [פלאצקי], אסטראב, ערב ראש השנה תרפ"ג; ר' גדליה שמעלקיס, פרעמישלא, ערב שבת קודש[?] תרפ"ב; ר' שלמה ברייער, פראנקפורט דמיין, [תשרי] תרפ"ב; ר' אברהם מרדכי אלטר, גור, ה וילך תרפ"ב; ר' חיים אלעזר שפירא, מונקאטש, ה יתרו תרפ"ב; ר' יצחק זעליג מארגענשטערן, סאקלוב, יט אדר תרפ"ה; ר' מנחם מענדיל אלטר, פאביאניץ; כב שבט תרפ"ה; ר' צבי חנוך הכהן [לוין] , בענדין, ד וירא תרפ"ה; ר' חיים עוזר גראדזענסקי, ווילנא, ז כסלו תרפ"ב; ר' אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק, ירושלים, יח טבת תרפ"א; ר' יחזקאל ליבשיץ, קאליש, ג שמות תרפ"ב; ר' אברהם דובער כהנא שפירא, קאוונא, כח כסלו תרפ"ב; ר' מאיר לערנער, אלטונא, [בלא תאריך]: ר' נחמן שלמה גרינשפאן, ליעדז, א מרחשון תרפ"ה; ר' מרדכי צבי שווארץ, הולל, א בהעלותך תרפ"ח; ר' ברוך הלוי עפשטיין מפינסק, ווארשא, א דחנוכה תרפ"ב.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica