Tosefta, according to the Erfurt and Vienna manuscripts, with sources and variations of versions and index [in German], by Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Tzukermandel. Jerusalem, 1938. Second edition, with "Tosefta completion" by Rabbi Shaul Leiberman, head of the Harry Fischel Institute for Talmudic Research. Additions and other variations [most of the book is a photocopy of the first edition printed in Pozeṿalḳ in 1881, with the appendix printed in Trier in 1882]. Picture-plate, full-page photograph of Vienna manuscript.
On the binding leaves and on the title page are owners' signatures and stamps which were later covered by a sticker, Rabbi "Yitzchak Shlomo Zilberman" of Jerusalem. On the sticker pasted on the flyleaf is a dedication handwritten and signed by Rabbi Schach: "A gift to my dear loved one Rabbi Noach Shimonowitz upon the joyous day of his marriage, the 3rd of Tevet 1945, Jerusalem. From he who loves him, Elazar Menachem Schach".
Rabbi Noach Shimonowitz (1907-1955), was an outstanding Lithuanian Torah scholar, disciple of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman and Rabbi Baruch ber Leibowitz and close disciple of the Brisker Rav Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev Soloveitchik. During the Holocaust, he escaped to Jerusalem and in 1945 he married the daughter of Rabbi Chizkiyahu Mishkovsky Av Beit Din of Krynki. In 1949, he established the Knesset Chizkiyahu Yeshiva in Zichron Ya’akov, and in 1955, a few days after the yeshiva moved to its new premises in Kfar Chassidim, he suddenly died. His brother-in-law Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Mishkovsky succeeded him as head of the yeshiva.
Rabbi Elazar Menachem Schach (1899-2002), became Rabbi Noach’s close friend at the home of their teacher Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev of Brisk in Jerusalem. Due to the dire poverty at that time in Jerusalem, Rabbe Schach bought a second-hand gift from the library of the young yeshiva student Rabbi Yitzchak Shlomo Zilberman (1928-2001) who had immigrated from Berlin to Jerusalem in the 1940s and later became famous as a prominent Torah scholar and as a Jewish philosopher erudite in Torah philosophy and in kabalistic wisdom. He established educational institutes and renewed the Charedi yishuv in the Old City of Jerusalem.
63, [1]; 7, [1], 690, [2]; [LXLIV, 3] pages. [2] picture-plates. 23 cm. Good-fair condition, detached leaves and torn binding.