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The second work is Shem ha-Gedolim me-Erez Hagar, (parts 1 & 3) a series of biographies of Hungarian rabbis and a bibliographical list of their works organized on the style of the Shem ha-Gedolim of the Hida. This Shem ha-Gedolim is an important source on the biographies and works of Hungarian rabbis. The author, R. Phinehas (Pinhas) Selig ha-Kohen Schwartz (1877–1944) was a Hungarian scholar. He was born in Felsoviso and died in the Holocaust. He published, between 1932 and 1935, a Torah periodical entitled Or Torah and several valuable works on specific topics, including: Yizrah Or (1925, photocopy 1952), the order of the blessing of the sun; Givat Pinhas (1926), on the laws of the slaughter and examination of animals; Ateret Paz (1928), on the laws of the priestly blessing; Minhat Omer (1931, photocopy 1969), on the laws of the counting of the Omer; Temimei Derekh (1935, 2nd ed. Szatmar, 1947, photocopy in German, no date), on the laws of the blessing and prayers on going on a journey; Minhah Hadashah (1937, photocopy N. Y. 1969), topics connected with Shavuot; Shulhan Arukh Yoreh De'ah (1938), on the laws of the redemption of a firstborn, together with his own novellae on that topic. A detailed list of his works was published by N. Ben-Menahem in Aresheth, 4 (1966), 427–35.
. בו נקבצו ובאו שמות ותולדות גאוני וגדולי ... ארץ הגר <אונגארן> ... לרבות ... הרבנים ... אשר הם חיים אתנו ... בסדר א"ב ... והמה יפרדו לשתי מערכות. א) מערכת גדולים. ב) מערכת ספרים. ונלוה עמהם סיפורים זשיהות ... שבאו אגב ... בשם "גבעת פנחס" ... וחוברו ... יחדיו ... ממני הצעיר לבית נפתלי פנחס זעליג הכהן שווארטץ יליד עיר מאד ומתגורר פק"ק קליינווארדיין ...