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Lot #    24200
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 12:40:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Eulogy – Shem Shimon
Title (Hebrew)    שם משמעון
Author    [Eulogy] R. Isaac Sofer
City    Drohobycz
Publisher    Zupnik et Knoller
Publication Date    1883
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 30 pp. octavo 188:130 mm., light age staining, not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Eulogy for R. Simeon Sofer (Mikhtav Sofer) son of R. Moses Sofer (Hatam Sofer) by R. Isaac Sofer. The title page informs that R. Isaac Leib ben Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer was a nephew – son of R. Simeon’s older brother R. Abraham Samuel Benjamin Wolf – of R. Simeon Sofer, who is described as and was av bet din of Cracow. R. Simeon Sofer was a scion of the preeminent rabbinic Sofer (Schreiber) family. R. Simeon Sofer (1820–1883) was appointed rabbi of Mattersdorf in 1848 and in 1861 of Cracow, where he served until his death. He founded Mahzike Hadas, the Orthodox organization in Galicia, to battle the maskilim. With this end in view he strengthened relations with the hasidic rabbis of Belz and Zanz. From 1878 he was a member of parliament in Vienna. His books on halakhah and homiletics were published under the title Mikhtav Sofer (2 vols., 1952–55). R. Simeon died on Monday, 16 Adar Sheni 643 (March 15, 1883) (actually a Sunday), and the eulogy was delivered on Erev Rosh Hodesh Nissan. Pages 11-30are a novella delivered by R. Simeon Sofer.
          
Paragraph 2    לשמו של... דודי... מוה' שמעון סופר זצוק"ל אב"ד דק"ק קראקא... אשר עלתה נשמתו... ביום ב טז אדר שני... תרמ"ג, וביום ה ער"ח ניסן לעת ערב עוררתי עליו מספר [!]... בבהמ"ד הגדול של ח"ק [חברה קדישא] שהשאיר... חותני... מוה' דוד לינדענבוים ע"ה. אני בן אחיו... יצחק ליב סופר פה דראהאביטש...
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0153589
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Eulogy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica