Auction 050 Part 1 Satmar: Rebbes and Rabbis of Satmar-Sighet, Hungary and Transylvania

Chiddushei Maharik – Munkacs, 1899 – Copy of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Halberstam, Av Beit Din of Solotvyno (Son-in-Law of the Atzei Chaim of Sighet), With Ownership Inscriptions and Signatures

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Chiddushei Maharik, novellae on the Smag in the laws of Pesach, attributed to R. Yosef Kolon (the Maharik). Munkacs: Tzvi Yaakov Kahn and Menachem Klein, 1899. First edition. Approbation of the Darchei Teshuvah of Munkacs, the Ateret Yeshuah of Dzikov and the Maharsham of Berezhany.

Copy of R. Chaim Yitzchak Halberstam Av Beit Din of Slotfina – his signature on the title page and last page: "Chaim Yitzchak Eizik Halberstam of Dolyna"; ownership inscription in his handwriting on the title page and the front inside binding: "Given to me as a gift by R. Efraim Kopolowitz of Dubova"; "…Given to me as a gift by… R. Efraim Kopelowitz son of R. Anshel Kopelowitz of Dubova when I was at Poienile, Maramureș, Hungary – Chaim Yitzchak Eizik Halberstam of Dolyna, Galicia".

Stamp of the publisher on title page: R. "Pinchas Zelig HaKohen Schwartz son of R. N[aftali], author of Beit Naftali, Av Beit Din of Mád" – R. Pinchas Zelig HaKohen Schwartz of Bezded, son of R. Naftali Schwartz, Av Beit Din of Mád, author of Beit Naftali. Handwritten marginal glosses to some leaves.


R. Chaim Yitzchak Eizik Halberstam (ca. 1899 – perished in the Holocaust 2nd Sivan 1944), eldest son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, the Atzei Chaim of Sighet. Son of Rebbe Yehoshua Halberstam of Dolyna (son of R. Moshe Halberstam of Bardejov, son of Rebbe Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz, son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). After his marriage he was a household member of his father-in-law the Atzei Chaim for several years. In 1925 he was accepted as Av Beit Din of Slotfina (Solotvyno) and the region, establishing a prominent yeshiva there numbering hundreds of students. After the sudden passing of the Atzei Chaim (in 1926), R. Chaim Yitzchak Eizik became the pillar of the family, and appointed his young brother-in-law R. Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum as Rebbe and Av Beit Din of Sighet. He edited and published the books of his father-in-law the Atzei Chaim. He perished in the Holocaust with his community, his wife and nine of his children. His two eldest daughters were rescued, and established important families of rabbis and rebbes in the United States.


[2], 3-20 leaves. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Small open tears on title page and following leaf, lightly affecting the frame and text. Old binding; the spine and back side of the binding are new.

Distinguished Copies – Rebbes of Sighet and the Teitelbaum Family
Distinguished Copies – Rebbes of Sighet and the Teitelbaum Family