Kapot Temarim and Shemot BaAretz by R. Moshe ibn Habib. Zhovkva: Shaul Dov Mayerhofer, 1832.
Copy of R. Nechemiah Alter of Ger, son of the Sefat Emet.
Signatures and stamps on title page. In three places under these stamps are ownership inscriptions handwritten and signed by R. "Nechemiah Alter" of Ger.
Signature of R. "Yaakov David Yudkevitz, residing in Serock" and his stamp: "Yaakov David son of R. Y. Yudkevitz, Rabbi of Grójec" – R. Yaakov David Yudkevitz (d. 1893), Rabbi of Grójec (Poland). Previously served as Rabbi of Serock and Żuchowice. Son of R. Yechiel Halpern [of Kalisz]. Left behind voluminous manuscripts of Torah works, of which only Yad HaKetanah was printed. His son was R. Alexander Dan Yudkevitz, author of Orach Mishor.
Handwritten gloss on leaf 1.
Later inscriptions of "Shlomo Margaliot" and stamps.
R. Nechemiah Alter (1875-1942; perished in the Holocaust), son of the Sefat Emet of Ger, brother of the Imrei Emet and father-in-law of the Lev Simchah. An outstanding Torah scholar, he left Ger for Otwock after World War I, and later immigrated to Israel in 1925 and headed the Sefat Emet yeshiva in Jerusalem. In 1931 he returned to Poland and served as a member of the Council of Rabbis in Łódź. Most of his descendants perished in the Holocaust, with the exception of his eldest daughter Rebbetzin Yuta Henya, mother of the current Rebbe of Ger.
[1], 76 leaves. 37 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stamps. New binding.
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