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Lot #    8206
Auction End Date    9/21/2004 4:52:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kiryat Hannah
Title (Hebrew)    שאלות ותשובות קרית חנה
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Gershon Coblenz
City    Metz
Publisher    Gottshalk
Publication Date    1785
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 59 (should say 58), 3 ff., 195:140 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern half cloth and marbled paper boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa by R. Gershon ben Isaac Moses Coblenz. The title page has a decorative border with a crown at the top and bottom, and at the bottom of the page a shield with three fleur de lis topped by a crown, representative of the French monarchy. The title page states that it is the responsa of the late R. Gershon Coblenz a member of the great Bet Din of Metz. Reference is made to King Louis XVI and the title page is dated with a chronogram from, “This is the service [of the families] of the sons of Gershon” (Numbers 4:28). There is an introduction from R. Gershon (1b-3a) concluding with verse, the initial words forming an anagram of his name. Next is an introduction from his son, R. Jacob ben Gershon Jacob (3a-4a), with a woodcut at the end of the page. The text is comprised of forty six responsa, completed by R. Gershon at the age of twenty-five, as well as four responsa from R. Issachar Dov (1712–1744), who was appointed head of the yeshivah at Metz but died on the way there before being able to take up the appointment. There is a detailed index. Kiryat Hannah concludes with an approbation from the Great Bet Din of Metz, signed by R. Uri Pheibush Kohen, R. Joseph Yuzel Judah, R. Mordecai ben Libermasn Levi Ettingen, R. Asher Anshel ben Eliezer ha-Levi, R. Abraham Avrili Pikrit, R. Meir Wolf Sharveil, and R. Joseph ben Leib. At the bottom of the page, as a tail-piece, is the shield with fleur de lis. The text is in two columns in rabbinic type, excepting headers and initial words. Kiryat Hannah is printed on clear fine paper.

R. Gershon ben Isaac Moses Coblenz (1717- first half eighteenth century) was a pupil of R. Jacob Reisher (Shevut Ya’akov) and officiated as dayyan at Metz. In addition to Kiryat Hanah, many of R. Gershom’s responsa can be found in ShevutYa’aḳov and in the Keneset Yehezkel of R. Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen. R. Gershon also wrote novellae on the Turim and corresponded on rabbinical subjects with rabbis Judah Müller, Samuel Helmann, and Jacob Joshua of Cracow.

          
Paragraph 2    והוא שו"ת שחיבר... ר' גרשון קובלענץ (מזיא) זצ"ל חד מדייני רבה דק"ק מיץ... הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י בנו... ר' יעקב...

דף ג-ד: " הקדמה מבן הרב המחבר": "אף שכבר נדפס ממנו כמה תשובות בשו"ת שבות יעקב [לר' יעקב רישר], ח"ש [חלק שני, האלי תע"ט] ובשו"ת כנסת יחזקאל [לר' יחזקאל קאצינלנבויגן , אלטונא תצ"ב] אעפי"כ לא אמנע מלהדפיסם". המחבר בהקדמתו אומר: "שאיזה מהם נדפסים בקיצור נמרץ... בשו"ת שבות יעקב ח"ש".

"הסכמה מבי דינא רבה דק"ק מיץ" (בסוף הספר): ר' אורי פייבש כהן , ר' יוסף יוזל יהודה ב"ל מערכינגן, ר' מרדכי ב"ר ליברמן לוי איטינוגן , ר' אשר אנשיל ב"ר אליעזר הלוי, ר' אברהם אברלי פיקרט , ר' מאיר וואלף שרליוויל ור' יוסף ב"ר ליב גוגנהיים, כג אלול תקמ"ה.

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; JE; Shem ha-Gedolim, pp. 41, 132.L; Vin Metz 46; CD-EPI 0162504
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
France:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica