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Lot #    24944
Auction End Date    10/27/2009 10:56:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ohel Torah
Title (Hebrew)    אהל תורה - קונ' ב-ג-ד
Author    [Periodical] R. Pinhas Hirschprung, ed.
City    Cracow
Publisher    M. Deitcher
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [95]-142 pp., 225:150 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original title wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    One issue of periodical Ohel Torah which appeared from 1927-1931 and was edited by R. Pinhas Hirschprung (1912–1998), Canadian Chief Rabbi and talmudic scholar. R. Hirschprung was born in Dukla, Poland, and was educated in rabbinic literature by his grandfather, R. Tevel Seman, and at the Yeshivat Hakhmei Lublin, where he gained renown for his remarkable memory in Torah scholarship. He arrived in Montreal in 1941, having escaped the Nazis in a journey which took him through Russia, Japan, and Shanghai. His escape is described in his book Fun Natsishen Yamertal: Zikhroines fun a Palit (1945). In Montreal, he was involved in the affairs of the Rabbinical Council (Va'ad ha-Rabbanim) of the Jewish Community Council of Montreal (Va'ad ha-Ir). In 1969, having served some years as rosh Beth Din, he succeeded R. Joshua Herschorn as president of the Rabbinical Council and was thus widely accepted as Montreal's chief rabbi. In this capacity, R. Hirschprung expanded the Montreal Beth Din's arbitration of personal and business disputes. He also engaged in a campaign to help provide prayer books and other religious articles to Soviet Jewry. He was internationally known for his grasp of the entire range of talmudic literature and his opinion was sought on numerous halakhic issues in Israel and the Diaspora. He was the head of Montreal's Merkaz ha-Torah, and established Jewish day schools, notably the Beth Jacob School for girls in Montreal, which was named Bais Yaakov d'Rav Hirschprung after his death. R. Hirschprung co-edited the rabbinical journal Ohel Torah (1928–32), and contributed many articles to journals of Torah scholarship. He also published a collection of short addresses, Kuntres Penei Shelomo (1967).
          
Paragraph 2    ירחון תורני ספרותי, קובץ חידושים ובאורים בדברי רבותינו ז"ל ופלפול חברים של תלמידי חכמים... מאת גאוני וגדולי וחכמי זמנינו נ"י וכמה כת"י מגאוני קשישאי ז"ל. ערוך מאתי פנחס הירשפרונג... שנה [א]-ה.

שערי-מעטפת. [שנה א], קונטרס א-ו, [שנה ב], קונטרס א-ד: יו"ל ע"י יוסף גוזיק, דוקלא; שנה ג, קונטרס ג-ו, שנה ד, קונטרס א-ב, שנה ה, קונטרס א: ערוך מאת הרב... ישעי' יוסף מארגאלין ... ומאתי פנחס הירשפרונג. לא יצא יותר?

          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0183433; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Periodical
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica