Geon Yaakov – Lviv, 1863 – Copy of Rabbi Moshe Grünwald, Rabbi of Khust, Author of Arugat HaBosem and His Father ...

Geon Yaakov – Lviv, 1863 – Copy of Rabbi Moshe Grünwald, Rabbi of Khust, Author of Arugat HaBosem and His Father Rabbi Amram Grünwald

Geon Yaakov, novellae on Tractate Eruvin, by R. Yaakov Kahana. Lviv: Zalman Leib Flecker and partners, 1863.

Copy of R. Moshe Grünwald, author of Arugat HaBosem, with his stamp on title page: "Moshe Grünwald, Rabbi of Khust and the region".

On the title page appears a signature: "Amram Gr[ün]w[ald]", apparently that of the father of the Arugat HaBosem, R. Amram Grünwald of Csorna.

R. Moshe son of Amram Grünwald (1853-1910), the Arugat HaBosem, leading Hungarian rabbi and yeshiva dean. Son of R. Amram Grünwald of Csorna, disciple of the Ktav Sofer. R. Moshe was a disciple of R. Menachem Katz Prostitz of Tzeilem (Deutschkreutz) and the Ktav Sofer of Pressburg. Already as a young man he managed a yeshiva in his hometown Csorna, and he later served as rabbi in several Hungarian communities. In 1893 he was appointed Rabbi of Khust. Although he studied under the Chatam Sofer's pupils, he adopted Chassidic manners and habitually traveled to the Rebbes of Belz and Sighet. In Khust he established an elaborate court and expanded his yeshiva, which became one of the largest and most important in Hungary. Students arrived from inside and outside the country, and many Hungarian rabbis were students of his.

[2], 58, [1] leaves. 35.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness, and color stains to margins of some leaves. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Tears to signature on title page (from ink erosion). Title page and several other leaves detached. Loose and partially detached gatherings. Early cardboard binding, damaged, detached on both sides, without spine.