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Three Polemic Books – USA
* Sefer Yosef Tikvah, concerning machine Matzot. Rabbi Zechariah Yosef Rosenfeld. St. Louis, 1903. Many signatures in English. Many revisions were made to the book and leaves were replaced after the printing. See Bibliography Institute CD, (record 0167104). This book, in its early and rare edition includes original leaves 29-30 [in the revised edition these leaves were removed and replaced with leaves 29-41 which do not appear in this copy].
* Sefer Sho’el Ka’Inyan, polemic pertaining to Kashrut of ritual baths in the USA. Rabbi Shalom Elchanan Yaffe, rabbi in St. Louis, USA. Jerusalem, 1895. (Dry and fragile paper). Written as response to pamphlet Tikvat Zecharia by Rabbi Zechariah Yosef Rosenfeld (St. Louis, 1894), who raised question as to the Kashrut of the ritual baths in St. Louis.
* Divrei Emet, section two. Polemic concerning Kashrut of slaughtering in Chicago. Rabbi Tzvi Shimon Elbaum. Chicago, 1912. (Continuation to section one which was printed in 1904, regarding that particular polemic with the Ridbaz [Rabbi Yaakov David Vilovsky], who wrote in opposition of the author in the introduction to his books. Includes: Many manuscript facsimiles of letters by rabbis pertaining to this matter.
3 books, various sizes and conditions.
