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Lot #    23089
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 12:29:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Matei Meir
Title (Hebrew)    מטעי מאיר
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Meyer Freeman
City    St. Louis
Publisher    Moinester Publishing Co.
Publication Date    1923
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 314, [4] pp., 232:178 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A good copy bound in contemporary cloth over boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae by R. Meyer Freeman (b. 1843). He studied in various yeshivot before enrolling in the yeshivah in Volozhin at the age of sixteen. Two years later he transferred to the yeshivah of R. Mordekhai Hirsch in Kalwaria, Poland. He immigrated to America at the age of twenty and became a shohet. He lived in New York and maintained hevrutot (regular study partnerships) with R. Zevi b. Nehemiah Katz (in the Mariampoler congregation) and R. Solomon Siskind (preacher of the AlIen St. synagogue). He traveled to the Land of Israel in 1888. While there he was arrested by Ottoman authorities, necessitating American diplomatic intervention. Freeman had a butcher shop on New York's Lower East Side in 1900. Freeman was active in local communal affairs. He served as the president of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol of New York and was a founder of the Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, which sought to bring a chief rabbi to New York. He later served as the president of Congo Talmud Torah, 221 E. 51" St. Dismayed that he "found ... no Torah" in his neighborhood, Freeman donated "a few thousand dollars" to build a synagogue and study hall with a seating capacity of seven hundred.
          
Paragraph 2    מטעי מאיר והוא חדושים ובאורים על ש"ס בבלי וירושלמי, מאת מאיר בן זאב פריימאן מניוארק...

שני שערים. הראשון בשלל צבעים. הסכמות: ר' אברהם דובער כהנא שפירא מקאוונא, ניוארק, יט אדר-א תרפ"א; ר' שמואל צבי ב"ר משה ארי' הלוי וויין, בארא פארק, [ניו- יארק], יג תשרי תרע"ז; ר' גבריאל זאב מרגליות, ניוארק.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0159605
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica