Collection of Books – Ownership Inscriptions – Romanian and Hungarian Rabbis

Collection of Books – Ownership Inscriptions – Romanian and Hungarian Rabbis

Assorted collection of ten books, with ownership inscriptions, stamps and dedications – Hungarian and Romanian rabbis and their families.
Distinguished copies belonging to the following rabbis:
• R. Yehudah Kahana of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației), son of R. Chaim Aryeh Kahana, dayan and posek in Sighet and author of Divrei Geonim (1830-1917) and brother of R. Nachman Kahana, head of the Spinka Beit Din, author of Orchot Chaim.
• R. Yisrael Harnik, Rabbi of Vicovu de Sus (Bukovina) and Rădăuți (1879-1949), author of Demaot Yisrael, Pe'er Yisrael and other works that remain in manuscript.
• R. Yisrael Gottesman, Rabbi of Zastavna (Bukovina) in the 1920s-30s. Son and successor of R. Meir Gottesman, Rabbi of Zastavna and Novoselytsia. Perished in the Holocaust in 1942.
• R. Chaim Yehudah Goldenberg, Rabbi of Svaliava (perished in the Holocaust, 1944), son and successor of R. Shalom Goldenberg, Rabbi of Svaliava, and grandson of R. Yitzchak Eizik Weiss, Rabbi of Svaliava and head of the Munkacs Beit Din.
• R. Menachem David Ish-Shalom of Vienna.
• R. Amram Rosenberg, Rabbi of Ratzfert (Újfehértó; perished in the Holocaust, 1944), succeeded his father R. Shaul Rosenberg, Rabbi of Ratzfert, author of Chemdat Shaul (d. 1939).
• R. David Moskowitz, Rabbi of Năsăud, author of Gelilei Zahav (1868-1959), immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935 and served as Rabbi in Tel Aviv.
• R. Avraham Abba (Armin) Frieder, Chief Rabbi of Slovakia. Known for a sermon he delivered during the Holocaust in March 1942, revealing to the community the news that the Jews were being sent to death camps and calling for them to escape.
• And more.

10 books in 11 volumes. Varying size and condition. New bindings. The books have not been thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.

See Hebrew description for a detailed listing of books and details on signatures and dedications.