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Ansche Schem, Solomon Buber, Cracow 1895

אנשי שם - Only Edition

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  • Lot Number 46264
  • Title (English) Ansche Schem
  • Title (Hebrew) אנשי שם
  • Note Only Edition
  • Author Solomon Buber
  • City Cracow
  • Publisher Joseph Fisher
  • Publication Date 1895
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1273862
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Physical Description

Only edition.XXVIII, 249, [3] pp., 8°, 224:152 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed
 

Detail Description

Short biographies of famous people who served in the city of Lvov (Lemberg) by Solomon Buber (1827–1906), scholar and authority on midrashic and medieval rabbinic literature. Buber was born in Lemberg, Galicia, into a well-known rabbinic family and devoted himself to the publication of scholarly editions of existing Midrashim, printed or in manuscript, and to the reconstruction of those that had been lost. His Midrash editions and those of some medieval works constituted a veritable revolution in the production of reliable texts. Their learned introductions are major research works in themselves, and the annotations give a complete picture of the textual problems and parallel passages. While scholarship in this field has not stood still since Buber's days and his work and method are in part, at least, outdated, subsequent researchers in this field owe him much.

Buber was a man of independent means and financed his scholarly projects personally. Not only did he pay for the expense of publication, but he also paid for people to visit various libraries to copy manuscripts. Buber's achievement is all the more remarkable in view of his active business life. He was a governor of the Austro-Hungarian Bank and the Galician Savings Bank, president of the Lemberg Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Lemberg Jewish community's executive council from 1870. Buber's Midrash editions were (1) Tanhuma (on the Pentateuch), an older and different version of the previously known and printed Midrash of that name (Vilna, 1885, 1913; repr. 1946, 1964); (2) Midrash Lekah Tov or Pesikta Zutrata by Tobias b. Eliezer (11th century) on the Pentateuch (part of the work, from Leviticus on, had been printed previously) in Buber's edition with a commentary by Aaron Moses Padua of Karlin (1880, 1884, 1921–24; repr. 1960); (3) Midrash Aggadah on the Pentateuch (1894; repr. 1961); (4) Sekhel Tov on Genesis and Exodus by Menahem b. Solomon (12th century; 1900–02; repr. 1959, 1964); (5) Aggadat Bereshit on Genesis (first published by Abraham b. Elijah of Vilna, 1802), 28 homilies following the triennial cycle of the Palestinian rite (1903, 1925; repr. 1959); (6) Likkutim mi-Midrash Avkir on Genesis and Exodus (1883; repr. 1967); (7) a reconstruction of Midrash Devarim Zuta in Likkutim mi-Midrash Devarim Zuta, on Deuteronomy (1885); (8) Midrash Shemu'el (1893, 1925; repr. 1965); (9) Midrash Tehillim, or Shohar Tov, on Psalms (1891; repr. 1966); (10) Yalkut ha-Makhiri on Psalms by Machir b. Abba Mari (14th century; 1900; repr. 1964); (11) Midrash Mishlei on Proverbs (1893; repr. 1965); (12) Midrash Zuta on the Five Scrolls except Esther (1894, 1925; repr. 1964); (13) Eikhah Rabbah [Rabbati], on Lamentations (1899; repr. 1964); (14) Aggadat Ester, part of Midrash ha-Gadol (1887, 19252; repr. 1964); (15) Sifrei de-Aggadata, three Midrashim on Esther (1887; repr. 1964); and (16) Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, a hitherto unpublished selection of homilies for special Sabbaths and festivals by Rav Kahana, first discovered by L. Zunz, from a manuscript written in Egypt in 1565, which Buber found in Safed (now in the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris, no. 47; 1868, 1925; repr. 1963). Of these 16 items, numbers 1, 9, and 15 are the most important. Buber also annotated L. Gruenhut's edition of the Yalkut ha-Makhiri on Proverbs and of Yelammedenu fragments on Genesis (Sefer ha-Likkutim, 6, 1903). He also edited many other works by medieval authors as well as some historical works, including a biography and bibliography of Elijah Levita. Buber also contributed some hundred articles to various periodicals. Martin Buber was his grandson.

 

Hebrew Description

גאוני ישראל ... רבנים, ראשי מתיבתא, מורי צדק, מגידי מישרים, דיינים, פרנסים ומנהיגים, אשר שמשו בקדש בעיר לבוב במשך ארבע מאות שנה, משנת ה"א ר"ס >1500< עד ה"א תר"ן >1890<. גם איזה גדולי ישראל, אשר נולדו פה ואשר רק מנוחתם כבוד בעירנו. נסדרו עפ"י סדר א"ב עם קצת תולדות וקורות חייהם, ושמות הספרים אשר חברו, ואיה נמצא זכרונם בספרים ובהסכמות, ומהם אשר היו בועד ארבע ארצות, גם אותם אשר באו בחתימת ידם בפנקס הקהל תחת פסקי דינים וכתבים ותקנות וכרוזים וקיום שטרות משנת ה"א שפ"ו >1626< עד שנת ה"א תקל"ח >1778<, עם העתקת נוסח מצבות הרבה, ונלוו אל זה גם איזו הוספות מכתבים ותקנות הנמצאים בפנקס הנ"ל, המפיצים אור על מצב האומה ודרכי חייהם בזמן ההוא, ועם מבוא בראש הספר לקורות בני ישראל בעיר הזאת. ממני שלמה באבער מלבוב ...

Added t.p.: Ansche Schem, Biographien und Leichensteininschriften von Rabbinen, Lehrhausvorstehern, Religionsweisern, Rabbinatsassessoren und Gemeindevorstehern, die waehrend eines Zeitraumes von vierhundert Jahren <1500-1890> in Lemberg lehrten und wirkten. In alphabetischer Reihenfolge nebst einem Beitrage zur Geschichte der Juden in Lemberg, von Salomon Buber ...


תיקונים ומילואים לספר, עיין: ראובן מרגליות, לתולדות "אנשי שם" בלבוב, ירושלים תש"י.

 

References

CD-NLI 0115669; BE sameh 672; EJ; M. Reines, Dor ve-Hakhamav (1890), 28ff.; S. Bernfeld, in: Ha-Shilo'ah, 17 (1907), 168ff.; Zeitlin, Bibliotheca, 44ff.; J.K. Miklischansky, in: S. Federbush (ed.), Hokhmat Yisrael be-Ma'arav Eiropah (1965), 41–58;