Talmud Yerushalmi Kodshim (Forged) - Two Parts - With Glosses Handwritten by the Pittsburg Gaon, Author to the ...

Talmud Yerushalmi Kodshim (Forged) - Two Parts - With Glosses Handwritten by the Pittsburg Gaon, Author to the Mashbiach Commentary on the Yerushalmi
Talmud Yerushalmi (forged), Seder Kodshim, with Cheshek Shlomo commentary by the publisher Shlomo Ye'udah, son of the Maharam the Sephardi, known as Friedlander. Part 1 - Zevachim-Arachin, Part 2 - Chulin-Bechorot, Seini, 1907-1909.
Ownership stamps of the "Library of the great Torah scholar R' Moshe Shimon son of R' Yechezkel Zivitz Ra'avad of Pittsburg…died the 11th of Sivan 1936". Many penciled glosses in his handwriting, in some he mentions his book Mashbiach on the Talmud Yerushalmi.
Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz (1851-1936), an outstanding Torah scholar, one of the senior US rabbis, thoroughly studied the Talmud Yerushalmi and authored several books. Born in Lithuania, he was one of the foremost disciples of Rabbi Eliezer Gordon of Telz. In 1882, he was appointed Rabbi of the city of Pikeliai (Lithuania). In 1884, he immigrated to the US, served two years as rabbi in Baltimore and later moved to Pittsburg where he served as Av Beit Din, a position he held for 50 years. He was renowned as one of the leading rabbis in the USA.
Particularly interesting are the glosses on these books of Yerushalmi Kodshim in which at times, he seems to believe that these books were indeed the lost Yerushalmi Talmud on Seder Kodshim, yet in others, he seems to be hesitant in this assertion. In his book Mashbiach, he also seems to doubt the authenticity of the Yerushalmi Kodshim (see for example: Mashbiach, Part 1, Tractate Challah, p. 14).
For additional information regarding the forgery and forger see Kedem catalogue, Auction 8 Item 137; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, Record 0308377.
This copy contains a sample facsimile of the "manuscript" on the verso of the first title page of Part 1. It also contains the Yerushalmi on the entire Tractate Arachin while the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book lists only the first page of this tractate.
Two volumes: [8], 100 leaves; [10], 78; [1], 47 leaves. 33-35 cm. Condition varies, good-fair. Worn bindings.
Provenance: The Sassoon family collection.