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Bidding Information
Lot #    25856
Auction End Date    2/16/2010 10:26:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Gevurot ha-Shem
Title (Hebrew)    âáåøåú ä'; ðöç éùøàì; úôàøú éùøàì; áàø äâåìä
Author    [Holocaust] R. Judah ben Bezalel Loew (Maharal)
City    Shanghai
Publication Date    1946
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    109; [1], 79; 66; 44 ff., 220:1475 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in the original half blue cloth and paper over boards, rubbed, color faded, corners tipped in.
          
Paragraph 1    Shanghai Imprints - Apart from J.J. Sulaiman's Kunteres Seder ha-Dorot (1921), the main period of Hebrew printing in Shanghai was during World War II and immediately after (1940–46), when remnants of Lithuanian yeshivot (Mir, Slobodka), as well as Lubavitch Hasidim, found refuge in Shanghai and printed – mostly photostatically – rabbinic, ethical, and hasidic works in limited editions for their own use. To the 80 items enumerated by Z. Harkavy (in Ha-Sefer, no. 9, 1961, 52–3; Hashlamot le-Mafte'ah ha-Maftehot (by S. Shunami, 1966), 3–4) have to be added – at least – the above work by J.J. Sulaiman and S. Elberg's Akedat Treblinka (Yid., 1946). Hebrew newspapers were printed in Shanghai as early as 1904.
          
Detailed
Description		    Four fundamental works by R. Judah ben Bezalel Loew (Maharal) printed in Shanghai for Holocaust survivors in camps. Maharal is among the preeminent rabbinic figures of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An original and profound thinker, his varied interests, in addition to vast rabbinic scholarship, encompassed kabbalistic, scientific, and mathematical studies. Little is known of Maharal’s personal life, as he was reticent to include such material in his works. However, he is the subject of numerous miraculous tales, concerning his birth, marriage, and later life. Born in Posen, Maharal served as Landesrabbiner of Moravia in Nikolsburg from 1553 to 1573 prior to moving to Prague to head the Klaus yeshiva. Maharal left Prague in 1583-1584 for Posen, returning in 1588-1589. He again left Prague for Posen in 1592, returning in 1597 to succeed R. Mordecai ben Abraham Jaffe (Levush), as Chief Rabbi. Although Maharal is known as Chief Rabbi of Prague he was elected to that position late in life, due to opposition to him for his independent positions, among them his disdain for the current educational curriculum and the pilpul method of Talmud study. His works in the fields of ethics, philosophy, and homiletics are all based on the same homiletical system: exegetical and homiletical interpretation of the sayings of the rabbis of the Talmud.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0178104; 0138980; 0139004; 0138925
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    China
  
Subject
Other:    Religion
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica