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Lot #    25431
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 12:36:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Zevi Hirsch b. Benjamin Baschko
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר צבי הירש בשקא אב'ד אה'ו
Author    [Ms. - Community]
City    Glogau
Publication Date    1793
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 225:187 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on paper, neat Ashkenazic script, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Addressed to the communal leaders of Altona by R. Zevi Hirsch b. Benjamin Baschko (1740–1807). He was the last to occupy the position of rabbi (which he held from 1802) of the joint communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek (the "Three Communities") before the union was dissolved. Born in Zamosc, Poland, of a distinguished family, he was rabbi first of Tischwitz (Tyszowce), then from 1771 of Brody, and from 1788 of Glogau, where he established an important yeshiva. He was one of the greatest rabbis of his day; among those who addressed halakhic questions to him were R. Isaiah Berlin, R. Solomon Zalman Fuerth, R. Phinehas Horowitz of Frankfort, and R. Meir Posner, while R. Ezekiel Landau and R. Akiva Eger referred to him in unusually high terms of esteem. He wrote Tiferet Zevi, responsa on the Shulhan Arukh in two parts, the first on Orah Hayyim and Yoreh De'ah (Warsaw, 1816) and the second on Even ha-Ezer (Jozsefov, 1867). His responsa also appear in the works of contemporary rabbis. Some of his commentaries and homilies are still in manuscript. He died in Ottensen, near Altona, and was buried at Altona, his tombstone bearing the inscription, "There arose none, nor will there ever be another, like him." His sons were also rabbis: R. Moses at Tomaszow, and R. Judah Loeb at Komarno.
          
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18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
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Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica