Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Manuscript, Tehillot Avraham on Tehillim - By Rabbi Avraham Stern, Author of Melitzei Esh

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Manuscript, Tehillot Avraham on Tehillim, handwritten by the author R. Avraham Stern, Dayan in Nové Zámky (Neuhäusel, Érsekújvár). [c. 1920s-1930s].
Complete composition on the entire book of Tehillim, prepared for print but apparently never printed, by the famous prolific author, R. Avraham Stern. R. Avraham Stern (1884-perished in the Holocaust 1944), author of Melitzei Esh, Gapei Esh, Kitvei Esh, Mesader Chilukim V'Shitot, and more; disciple of the Maharam Schick, of the author of Shevet Sofer and of the author of Arugot HaBosem. He was the son-in-law and close assistant of Rabbi Yosef Meir Tigerman (1852-1944), Rabbi of Nové Zámky (Neuhäusel, Érsekújvár). Murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers in Sivan 1944 together with his father-in-law who was almost 93 years old at the time, their families and with the Nové Zámky Jewish community.
His three sons are the famous Torah Scholars: R. Bezalel Stern (1910-1988), author of Betzel HaChochma, Rabbi of Vienna and Melbourne; R. Mordechai Stern (1909-1934), author of Rav Chessed; and R. Moshe Stern (1914-1997), the Rabbi of Debrecen-US, author of Be'er Moshe.
[343] handwritten pages. 22.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Heavy rodent damage, with severe damage to text. Damaged contemporary binding.
Manuscripts - Ashkenaz (Central Europe)
Manuscripts - Ashkenaz (Central Europe)