Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Letter Copies Notebook – Galicia

Opening: $180
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
Handwritten notebook with letter copies. [Stanislav (Galicia), 1840-1870].
Most letters are eloquent friendship letters or family letters written by the noble Antshel Ginzberg son of Rabbi Yitzchak Meir of Stanislav and his family members. (Includes a copy of Engagement Agreements and a Ketubah).
Letter 26 is a copy of the will of the Stanislav Av Beit Din, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Ha-Levi Horowitz, who passed away in 1844. Letters 27-30 are related to the transfer of the Stanislav rabbinical office to his son Rabbi Meshulam who, at the time, served as the Av Beit Din of Tysmenica (copy of a letter by Rabbi Yosef Shaul Nathanson and his brother in law Rabbi Mordechai Ze'ev Itinga). Letters 31-33 are related to the appointment of Rabbi Ya’akov Weidenfeld of Stanislav as Rabbi of Harimlov, in 1865. Letters 52-56 are copies of letters from Tiberias and Safed from the years 1836-1851 about the earthquake victims and more.
[57] Written leaves. Beginning and ending are missing (starts in the middle of the first letter and ends in the middle of letter 75). 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition, tears and wear.
Manuscripts
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