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Collection of Books – Important Ownership – Copies of Spinka and Zidichov Rebbes

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Collection of eight different books on Chassidut and halachah. Copies of mportant ownership, belonging to the rebbes of Spinka, Ropshitz and Zidichov and their families.
• Likutei Maharya on Yalkut Shimoni, Chassidic novellae, Part I on Neviim, by Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik of Zidichov. Lviv, 1889. First edition.
Stamps of Rebbe Asher Yeshayah Rubin and Rebbe Nachman Kahana of Spinka-Bnei Brak.
• Shtei HaLechem, responsa by R. Moshe Chagiz. Przemyśl, 1897.
- Bound with: Totzeot Chaim, glosses, corrections and references to Divrei Chaim, by R. Akiva HaKohen Lieber. Podgórze, Cracow, 1899.
On title pages of both books: Signatures, ownership inscriptions and self-dedications of R. Yonatan Binyamin Pollak of Spinka [son-in-law of the Imrei Yosef] and R. Moshe Pollak of Spinka [grandson of the Imrei Yosef].
• Shaarei Tohar on the laws of Nidah, with Shaarei Daat, by R. Avraham Einhorn. Sighet, 1901.
Signature and ownership inscription: "Moshe Pollak" [grandson of the Imrei Yosef of Spinka]. Additional inscription: "This book was given to me by my grandfather, the tzaddik of Spinka".
• Kitzur Reshit Chochmah by R. Eliyahu de Vidas. [Jarosław, 1909. Missing title page].
Stamp of R. "Avraham Abish Horowitz son of the tzaddik of Meletz (Mielec)" as well as his handwritten inscriptions. R. Avraham Abish (Abishel) Horowitz, Rabbi of Carei (1897-1944; perished in the Holocaust), son of Rebbe Naftali Horowitz of Melitz (1845-1915) and son-in-law of Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik Weiss of Spinka (1875-1944), author of Chakal Yitzchak. Served as Rabbi of Spinka in place of his father-in-law during World War I.
• Divrei Moshe, Chassidic and kabbalistic discourses on the Torah portions by R. Moshe Shoham, Rabbi of Dolyna (a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov). Zhovkva, 1865.
On the endpaper, inscriptions and signature of R. "Efraim Eliezer son of R. Shalom HaKohen" – Rebbe Efraim Eliezer HaKohen Yolles of Sambor from Philadelphia (1890-1988).
• Tevach VeHachen, laws of shechitah and bedikot, by R. Yosef Chaim Kara. Vilna, 1894.
Stamps of R. "Avraham Eisen, dayan and posek here, Pidhaitsi"; and stamps of Rebbe "Yehoshua Heshel Eichenstein, Rabbi of Khodoriv" [immigrated to the United States in 1924 and became the first rebbe in Chicago, d. 1940].
• Meged Shamayim, on Pri Megadim, Yoreh Deah, by R. Moshe Mordechai Steger. Cracow, 1895.
Stamps of R. "Yitzchak Eizik Rabin, descendant of R. Yitzchak Eizik of Zidichov", and stamp of Rebbe "Shalom Eichenstein" of Zidichov-Safed (ca. 1900-1989), author of Rav Shalom, son and successor of Rebbe Asher Yeshayah of Pruchnik (son of Rebbe Alexander Yom Tov Lipa of Zidichov). Served as rebbe in Romania, and after the Holocaust in Safed, and subsequently immigrated to the United States.
• Beit Pinchas, anthology of novellae on various subjects and ethical teachings by R. Pinchas of Korets, R. Chaim of Kraszna, R. Shmuel of Kaminka and others, by R. Pinchas Rabinowitz. Bilgoraj, 1926.
Stamp of R. "Aharon son of R. M. Rabin, Rabbi of Lanivtsi, Volhynia".


9 books in 8 volumes. Varying size and condition. New bindings. The books have not been thoroughly examined and are being sold as is.

Books Owned by Important Rebbes – Signatures and Ownership Inscriptions, Stamps and Glosses
Books Owned by Important Rebbes – Signatures and Ownership Inscriptions, Stamps and Glosses