SHA'AGAT ARYEH שאגת אריה
Munich; Ha-Va'ad Le-Hotsa'ot Sefarim Etsel Va'ad Ha-Hatsalah, 1947. Item #34140
1st edition thus. Original Boards. 8vo. 90 Leaves. 25 cm. In Hebrew. The first book printed for Jewish survivors by the Va'ad Hatzalah in Germany after the War.
The preface notes: "The lack of books of the Nation of the Book in Germany, encouraged us to print works necessary for yeshiva students....this is the first book that we successfully....published, this valuable Sha'agas Aryeh."
Sha'agat Aryeh, published for survivors and refugees in Europe; with prefatory printed dedication from Rabbi Nathan Baruch of Vaad Hatzala.
Following the end of the Second World War, the Vaad's activities, centered in Germany and France, consisted of distributing funds and shipments of food and religious books to Displaced Persons camps in Germany and newly established yeshivot. It provided spiritual rehabilitation to remnants of Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust.
Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg’s (1695-1785) responsa titled Sha’agat Aryeh (The Roar of the Lion; first published 1755) “brought him lasting recognition and has been republished at least 40 times since; it is still considered to be an essential text of rabbinic learning. Sha’agat Aryeh rejected the use of pilpul he had once indulged in and insisted on a direct approach of the Talmudic text with no special attention given to the contributions of the sixteenth–eighteenth-century authors” (YIVO Encyclopedia).
Subjects: Responsa - 1600-1800. Responsa. 1600 – 1800. Vaad Hatzala. OCLC: 19160226.
Spine rebacked, as often found. Edgewear, paper toning but solid. Good condition. (B) (HOLO2-117-54).
Price: $225.00