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Lot #
23835
Auction End Date
6/9/2009 1:00:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Rav Alfas, V. III
Title (Hebrew)
øá àìôñ, ç'â
Author
[Hasidic - The R. Reuven Levovitz Copy]
City
Zhitomir
Publisher
Hanina Lipa & Joshua Heschel Shapira
Publication Date
1858
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
378 ff., 382:237 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, old hands and stamps, ff. 282-286 misbound at end. A very good copy bound in contemporary full leather boards, rubbed.
Paragraph 1
The R. Reuven b. Hayyim Joseph ha-Levi Levovitz (1893-)copy with his inscription on title. He was a student of Radin, slabodka and the Mir. He came to the US in 1924 and became the Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshivat ha-Neziv followed by the Talmud Torah of East New York. He was an active and prominent member of the Agudat Harabonim and served as their spokesman on many important occasions. His brother in law was R. Moses Feinstein,
Detailed
Description
In 1847 the Shapira printing press was established by the three brothers Hanina Lipa, Aryeh Leib, and Joshua Heschel Shapira, sons of Samuel Abraham Abba Shapira, the printer in Slavuta. Until 1862 this was one of the only two Hebrew presses the Russian government permitted to operate in the whole of Russia, the other being in Vilna. This press had 18 hand presses and four additional large presses. In 1851 Aryeh Leib broke away and established his own printing press in Zhitomir. In these two establishments only sacred books of every kind were printed. During the years 1858–64 the press of the two brothers printed a beautiful edition of the Babylonian Talmud together with the Halakhot of Isaac Alfasi, while between 1860 and 1867 Aryeh Leib printed an edition of the Jerusalem Talmud.
Reference
Description
Toldot Anshei Shem p. 72
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Russia-Poland:
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Subject
Other:
Talmud
Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
