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Lot #    21815
Auction End Date    11/18/2008 10:21:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Midrash Joseph
Title (Hebrew)    מדרש יוסף
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Joseph Shapotshnick
City    Odessa
Publisher    Abba Dokna
Publication Date    1905-06
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. Parts I-IV, quarto, 218:150 mm., age staining, not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary to several tractates by R. Joseph Shapotshnick, a Talmudic scholar, emigrated from Kishnev and Odessa to England, where he settled in the East End of London in 1913. He took upon himself the title of Chief Rabbi, and conducted himself in such a manner that he soon came into conflict with the recognized establishment, that is, the Chief Rabbi and his Bet Din, as well as more right wing rabbis. His support of hopeless causes brought him into conflict with established authority and made him a colorful figure in his day. Among his opponents was R. Samuel Hillman, Dayan of the United Synagogue, who referred to Shapotshnick as a madman in correspondence with such prominent Eastern European rabbis as R. Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski of Vilna. The latter responded with a proclamation, signed by hundreds of rabbis, opposing Shapotshnick. In response, Shapotshnick published “Original Letters Received from World Famous Rabbinical Authorities Recognizing Chief Rabbi . . . Shapotshnick as one of the Greatest Talmudical Scholars. . .” He was a prolific writer, his works encompassing a wide variety of subjects, from Kabbalah and responsa to science and psychology.
          
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Reference
Description		    Friedberg 748; CD-EPI 0168425
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
Other:    m
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica