Collection of books and booklets of Shlomo Yehudah Leib Friedlander, the famous forger of the Talmud Yerushalmi on Seder Kodashim:

• Tosefta, Seder Zera'im and Nashim, with commentary Cheshek Shlomo by Shlomo Leib Friedlander. Two parts: Pressburg, 1889-1890. With title pages in French and preface on the manuscripts forming the basis for the text. First published work of Shlomo Friedlander, already displaying forgery, as the purported manuscripts never existed.

• Kesher Bogdim. Pressburg, 1891. Article against R. Aryeh Schwartz who had criticized his work Cheshek Shlomo on the Tosefta.

• Preface to Tosefta with Cheshek Shlomo. Tyrnau, 1930. Published posthumously by Friedlander's son.

• Talmud Yerushalmi (forged) on Seder Kodashim, with Cheshek Shlomo commentary. Part I: Zevachim and Arachin, Part II: Chulin and Bechorot. Seini, [1906]-1909. Both volumes. Ownership inscription on title page of first volume of "Yisrael Yonatan Yerushalimski" [1860-1917; son of R. Yaakov Moshe Direktor and son-in-law of the Ridvaz, author of a commentary on the Yerushalmi and Rabbi of Slutsk and Safed; father-in-law of R. Yechezkel Abramsky, author of Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta].

The lost Talmud Yerushalmi on Seder Kodashim was never printed. In the beginning of the 20th century, a man named Shlomo Friedlander (under a false identity) skillfully copied all the early quotations from the Talmud Yerushalmi and other sources and announced that he had found an ancient manuscript of the lost Talmud Yerushalmi. This forgery misled most rabbis and scholars of the time, while certain others recognized and publicly exposed the forgery. After the forgery was confirmed, most copies were discarded.

5 volumes. Varying size and condition. Overall good-fair to fair condition. Wear and tears. Worn bindings. The books were not thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.

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