Zvi Kodesh - Sulzbach, 1748 - Copy Belonging to Three Generations of Chernobyl Rebbes - Rebbe Aharon of Chernobyl ...

Zvi Kodesh - Sulzbach, 1748 - Copy Belonging to Three Generations of Chernobyl Rebbes - Rebbe Aharon of Chernobyl, Rebbe Zusia of Chernobyl and Rebbe Shlomo Ben Zion the "Yanuka" of Chernobyl
Zvi Kodesh, novellae on Tractates Berachot, Shabbat and Eruvin, by R. Zvi Hirsh son of R. David of Sokolov (Sokołów Małopolski in Rzeszów County). Sulzbach, 1748.
Ownership inscription at the top of the title page (damaged by worming) in ancient Ashkenazi script: "R. Zusia B'HaRav" [R. Yeshaya Meshulam Zusia Twersky]. Inscription on front flyleaf (in a later handwriting) that the book was received from the son of Rebbe Zusia: "I have received a gift from R. Shlomo Ben Zion of Chernobyl, A. Sheinderman", and a stamp that the book was donated to a synagogue in Tel Aviv from the estate of R. Aharon Sheinderman who died in the month of Adar in 1968.
The inscription "R. Zusia B'HaRav" attests to the fact that this book was among the holy books of R. Aharon of Chernobyl and of his son R. Zusha of Chernobyl. Reputedly, after R. Aharon died in 1872, his books were distributed among his descendants and each book was inscribed with the name of its new owner: "R. Zusia B'HaRav", "R. Menachem B'HaRav", etc.
Old signature on title page: "Zvi Hirsh son of R. Aryeh Leib", and ownership inscription: "Belongs to R. Yitzchak Isaac". Many more inscriptions appear on the endpapers including a long and interesting inscription in an ancient handwriting with a list of library books listing books printed in Slavita, Vienna, Ostroh, Prague, Amsterdam, Zhovkva and Dyhernfurth. The list ends with an inscription in another handwriting: "From now, a new note has begm after his death on the 4th of Tamuz 1834, here…".
R. Aharon Twersky of Chernobyl (1787-1872), senior rebbe in his times, son of R. Mordechai of Chernobyl and disciple of his grandfather R. Nachum of Chernobyl.
After his death, he was succeeded by his son R. Zusia (Yeshaya Meshulan Zusha) Twersky (died in 1881), maternal grandfather of R. Aharon Rokeach of Belz (1880-1957).
R. Zusia's son R. Shlomo Ben Zion Twersky (1870-1939), the "Yanuka" of Chernobyl was orphaned at the age of 11, and in 1883, at the time he reached his bar-mitzvah, was appointed his father's successor as Rebbe in addition to the position of the manager in Ukraine of funds allocated for Eretz Israel. He was one of the three famous "Yanukot" Rebbes in Russia: "The Yanuka of Karlin", "The Yanuka of Tolna" and the "Yanuka of Chernobyl". After the pogroms in Ukraine in 1920, he moved to Kiev. He lived for a while in the US and later returned to Kiev. His sons and sons-in-law continued the dynasty of Chernobyl and Rachmastrivka Rebbes.
76 leaves. 19.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, wear and tears. Worming affecting text. Dark leaves. Old damaged binding.