Manuscript, homiletics of Rabbi Baruch Menachem Auerbach, 115 homiletics in German-Yiddish in Hebrew letters. [End of 19th century]. At the end of Homiletic 115 (page 479), author's stamp: "Baruch Menachem ben Maharshal Auerbach, Wronki".
Rabbi Baruch Menachem Auerbach, born in c. 1840, of the Auerbach family who served in the Kalush rabbinate. Was orphaned when yet a child and raised in the home of the influential Moshe Vassertzug in Polatsk. Published the manuscript of the Ritva's novellae on Tractate Pesachim together with his father-in-law Rabbi Eliyahu Cohen Shapira (Warsaw 1864). Served in the rabbinate of the Posnań region (Poland, near Germany) as rabbi in Wronki and as Rabbi of Gollancz. Died at 44, and in 1911, his son-in-law Elyakim ben Yehuda of the Aryeh family (Prof. Heinrich Lowey, 1869-1951) printed the memoirs of Moshe Vassertzug from a manuscript found in the estate of his late father-in-law.
479 pp. written in especially handsome writing. 20.5 cm. Very good condition. Attractive binding with German inscription from 1917. Good condition, in matching cardboard box, worn.