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Books from the Library of Rabbi Yosef Zechariah Stern - Signatures and Glosses
Even HaSho'am and Me'irat Einayim, responsa and Chiddushim, Rabbi Elyakim Getz. Dyhernfurth, [1733]. * Eliyah Rabba, Chiddushim on six tractates, Rabbi Eliyahu Shapiro [author of Eliyah Rabba on the Shulchan Aruch]. Fֳ¼rth, [1768]. * Ner Tamid, explanations on Tractate Kritut, Rabbi Baruch Bendet of Zabludow. Navi Dovar, [1803]. (Signature on title-page, glosses). * Kadmut HaYehudim Neged Ifyun, Yosef Ben Matityahu HaCohen of Jerusalem, Leek, [1858]. (8 pages missing from middle of book). * Mutzal Me'esh, halachic responsa and Chiddushim, by Rabbi Ya'akov Alfandari, with comments by Rabbi Zusman Sofer. Pressburg, 1878.
Signatures and glosses by Rabbi Yosef Zechariah Stern. Title-page of Even HaSho'am contains interesting notation written in memory of his son who passed away:"Darkness descended upon me with the death of my precious son¦ Natan Chaim David Stern ,on Rosh Chodesh Iyar 1886¦ Yosef Zechariah son of Rabbi Natan Stern¦". [Similar notations concerning the death of his son appear in two additional books].
Rabbi Yosef Zechariah Stern (1831-1904, Otzar HaRabbanim 8783), leading rabbinic authority, among the greatest Torah scholars of his generation. Served as rabbi in Shavel, Lithuania since 1861. Author of Zecher Yehosef, Tahaluchot Ha'agadot.
Total of 5 books. Sizes and conditions vary.
