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Lot #    21679
Auction End Date    10/7/2008 11:28:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Tobias Geffen
Title (Hebrew)    ëúá îä'ø èåáé' âôï
Author    [Ms.]
City    Canton
Publication Date    1911
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 230:140 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on paper, neat Ashkenazic script, signed, dated, and stamped.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Tobias Geffen, who was born in Kovno, Lithuania, studied first under R. Isaac Elhanan Spektor and later at the Slobodka Yeshiva. After holding a rabbinic position in Kovno he went to the U.S. in 1903 and served congregations in New York and Canton, Ohio. In 1910 he was appointed to Congregation Shearith Israel, Atlanta, Georgia, where he remained active until the end of his life. Geffen published an autobiography in Yiddish and several volumes containing sermons, responsa on Jewish law and talmudic dissertations. He was a zealous teacher and an energetic worker for public causes, and these qualities, together with his talmudic scholarship, gave him an authoritative position among Orthodox Jews in the southern U.S. He wrote Lev Joseph (2 parts, St. Louis 1924), homiletics; Karnei haHod (2 parts, St. Louis 1935) novellae and homiletics; Hadrat Joseph (New York 1942) Talmudic pilpul; Nahalat Joseph (1946) Talmudic pilpul; Zikhron beSefer (Atlanta 1940) eulogy; many responsa in periodicals, and several unpublished works in manuscript.

In 1935 R. Geffen’s fame spread across the United State after he issued a kosher for Passover certification for the Coca-Cola soft drink.

          
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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