Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Letter by Rabbi Wolf Hoffman - Hungary, 1851
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Long autograph letter of responsum on the laws of terefot, signed by "Wolf Hoffman, Moreh Tzedek in Aba". Aba (Fejér county, Hungary), [1851].
Sent to R. Yehoshua Tauber Rabbi of Nagytétény.
R. Yehoshua HaLevi Tauber (1818-1884), son of R. Aharon Tauber Rabbi of Bátorove Kosihy (Bátorkesz), author of Yad Aharon. Disciple of R. Pinchas Leib Frieden Rabbi of Komarom and of R. Zvi Hirsh Charif Heller of Óbuda (Alt-Ofen). He was ordained by the Chatam Sofer and by leading rabbis of his times and was appointed Rabbi of Kiskőrös, but harassment by some of its population forced him to leave the city and he relocated to the Nagytétény rabbinate. See the book of novellae by Mahari Katz (Jerusalem, 1959).
[2] pages, 34 cm. On the back leaf are postal stamps and wax seals. Fair condition, wear and tear to margins.
Sent to R. Yehoshua Tauber Rabbi of Nagytétény.
R. Yehoshua HaLevi Tauber (1818-1884), son of R. Aharon Tauber Rabbi of Bátorove Kosihy (Bátorkesz), author of Yad Aharon. Disciple of R. Pinchas Leib Frieden Rabbi of Komarom and of R. Zvi Hirsh Charif Heller of Óbuda (Alt-Ofen). He was ordained by the Chatam Sofer and by leading rabbis of his times and was appointed Rabbi of Kiskőrös, but harassment by some of its population forced him to leave the city and he relocated to the Nagytétény rabbinate. See the book of novellae by Mahari Katz (Jerusalem, 1959).
[2] pages, 34 cm. On the back leaf are postal stamps and wax seals. Fair condition, wear and tear to margins.
The Chatam Sofer and his Family; Hungarian Rabbis - Letters and Manuscripts
The Chatam Sofer and his Family; Hungarian Rabbis - Letters and Manuscripts