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Lot #    21471
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 1:04:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Aryeh Zeev (Leib) Gurwicz
Title (Hebrew)    מכתב מה'ר ארי' זאב גורביץ ר'מ בית יוסף
Author    [Ms.]
City    Gateshead on Tyne
Publication Date    1981
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Description		    [2] pp., 254:204 mm., ink on stationary, Ashkenazic script, signed and dated; envelope.
          
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Description		    Letter by R. Aryeh Zeev (Leib) Gurwicz(1906-1982) Orthodox Rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of R. Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England. He studied at various yeshivas in Vilkomir, Mir, Baranovitch, and Brisk before becoming rosh yeshiva of Gateshead, having received encouragement to return to England from R. Yisrael Meir Kagan (Chofetz Chaim) which saved him from the Holocaust. R. Gurwicz published his first sefer in 1971, entitled Rashei Shearim, a title adapted from Gateshead, the name of the city that hosted the Yeshiva: shearim means "gates" and rosh means "head". The work is a compilation of the main lectures which he delivered in the Yeshiva.

In 1979 R. Gurwicz printed his Talmudic discourses, which he had recorded in the margins of his Gemara. He entitled it Arza Devei Rav, which means "pillar of the Beth midrash", based on his name Arye Ze'ev. These contain hundreds of original thoughts and novellae on the Talmud.

          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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