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Lot #    24332
Auction End Date    8/11/2009 10:38:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Simhat Higayon
Title (Hebrew)    שמחת הגיון
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Simhah Paltrowitch
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Zukerman
Publication Date    1922
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [4], 58, [1], 66, [1], 49, [5], 25, [1], pp. octavo 225:160 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A good copy loose in contemporary boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Apparently the only edition of these discourses and homilies on the Torah, Haftarot, and festivals by R. Simhah Paltrowitch and with an introduction by Harry S. Jacobs. The text is in three parts, each two title pages and a half-title page as well as separate English section with excerpts translated by Jacobs. There are approbations from R. Isaac Yeroham ben Moses Joshua Judah Leib Diskin, R. Joseph Hayyim Sonnenfeld, and R. Moses Nahum Wellenstein, R. Mordecai Leib Reuben, and R. Isaac Fraenkel. The first part of Simhat Higayon on the weekly Torah readings, the second on the Haftarot, and the third section on festivals and includes eulogies and likkutim. In the translator’s preface Jacobs writes that he is presenting to the American public an English version of some of the parables elucidating Biblical and Talmudic verses and proverbs. He notes that R. Paltrowitch was actuated by the desire of pointing out to young American Jews, who for the most part are unacquainted with the Hebrew language, the charm and effectiveness of Hebrew parables in bringing home Jewish moral lessons and in clarifying more or less obscure passages from the Scriptures or from Rabbinic literature. Jacobs further notes that many of the articles are written from a distinctly traditional point of view, and are in the nature of of a dramatic appeal to youth for whole-hearted adherence to the Jewish traditional faith. Most interesting is that the relatively small English section contains articles not in the Hebrew section and especially selected by R. Paltrowitch for translation from a long list of parables and reminiscences.

R. Simhah b. Zevi Hirsch Paltrowitch (1848-1925) was descended from R. David ben Samuel Ha-Levi (Taz, 1586–1667), the renowned halakhic authority R. Paltrowitch served as rabbi in Buffalo, New York from 1890 to 1914. His other works, in addition to Simhat Higoyon, Keter Zevi (Jerusalem 1906), Kol Simhah (Jerusalem 1913), and Simhat Avot (New York, 1917).

          
Paragraph 2    ... חדושי חמד על פסוקי התורה... על כל הפטרה, דרושים על כל מועדי השנה, ועוד... לקוטי שושנה... מאתי... שמחה בהרב... צבי זצלה"ה פאלטראוויץ החונה פה ניו-יורק... (חלק א-ג).

הסכמות: ר' יצחק ירוחם ב"ר משה יהושע יהודא ליב דיסקין, ירושלים, פורים תרפ"ב; ר' יוסף חיים זאננענפעלד ירושלם, טו אדר תרפ"ב; ר' משה נחום וואלענשטיין, ר' מרדכי ליב רובין ור' יצחק פרענקעל, ירושלים, טז אדר תרפ"ב.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0158452
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica