Lesson — auction comparables · Snaplot Comparables

Lesson — auction comparables · Snaplot Comparables

kestenbaum· Jun 2022

<p><b><span style="color: rgb(99, 0, 0);">(PRESSBURG).</span><br />Notebook of Yeshiva Student.</b> <br /><br /> <span>Anonymous Manuscript in Hebrew, Yiddish and German.</span> <br />ff. 20 (excluding blanks). Browned. Modern boards. 4to. <br /></p> <p><br />Hungary (likely Slovakia today): 1928-29 <br /><br />The Yeshiva notes of a young boy likely around Bar Mitzvah age. <b>A VALUABLE INSIGHT TO THE EDUCATIONAL REALITIES IN THE REALM DOMINATED BY THE CHASAM SOFER’S STUDENTS.</b></p> <p><br /></p> <p>All rabbis mentioned here were active in towns only a few dozen miles from Pressburg, the epicenter of the Chasam Sofer’s influence. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>The 40-odd pages of notes include: </p> <p>* Summary of <span style="color: rgb(99, 0, 0);">UNPUBLISHED</span> sermon heard directly from R. Shmuel David Halevi Ungar (Rosh Yeshiva of Nitra, 1885-1945). 1 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Transcript of Eulogy delivered for R. Yisrael ‘HaRo’eh’ Shor of Subatisht (Sobotište, d. 1929) by the student’s uncle. 4.5 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Sermon on Parshath Beha’alothcha delivered by the student at a meeting of the local Tze’irei Agudath Israel chapter. 7 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Notes on a beginner’s Talmudic Sugya (Kiddushin 36a). 2 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Torah thoughts (likely school notes, alternating pen indicates a new session of the class). 3 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Essay in German. 1 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Hebrew grammar lesson. 1 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>Thus, the young boy raised in the Soferian mold displays a clear penchant for Talmudic study, respect of rabbinic authority and a desire to make his own contributions to the world of Torah. While he also received a systematic education in Dikduk, as well as rudimentary writing skills in German, the ratio of such content speaks volumes as to the weltanschauung of the Pressburgian educational system.</p>

kestenbaum· Jun 2022

<p><b><span style="color: rgb(99, 0, 0);">(PRESSBURG).</span><br />Notebook of Yeshiva Student.</b> <br /><br /> <span>Anonymous Manuscript in Hebrew, Yiddish and German.</span> <br />ff. 20 (excluding blanks). Browned. Modern boards. 4to. <br /></p> <p><br />Hungary (likely Slovakia today): 1928-29 <br /><br />The Yeshiva notes of a young boy likely around Bar Mitzvah age. <b>A VALUABLE INSIGHT TO THE EDUCATIONAL REALITIES IN THE REALM DOMINATED BY THE CHASAM SOFER’S STUDENTS.</b></p> <p><br /></p> <p>All rabbis mentioned here were active in towns only a few dozen miles from Pressburg, the epicenter of the Chasam Sofer’s influence. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>The 40-odd pages of notes include: </p> <p>* Summary of <span style="color: rgb(99, 0, 0);">UNPUBLISHED</span> sermon heard directly from R. Shmuel David Halevi Ungar (Rosh Yeshiva of Nitra, 1885-1945). 1 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Transcript of Eulogy delivered for R. Yisrael ‘HaRo’eh’ Shor of Subatisht (Sobotište, d. 1929) by the student’s uncle. 4.5 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Sermon on Parshath Beha’alothcha delivered by the student at a meeting of the local Tze’irei Agudath Israel chapter. 7 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Notes on a beginner’s Talmudic Sugya (Kiddushin 36a). 2 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Torah thoughts (likely school notes, alternating pen indicates a new session of the class). 3 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Essay in German. 1 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>* Hebrew grammar lesson. 1 ff. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>Thus, the young boy raised in the Soferian mold displays a clear penchant for Talmudic study, respect of rabbinic authority and a desire to make his own contributions to the world of Torah. While he also received a systematic education in Dikduk, as well as rudimentary writing skills in German, the ratio of such content speaks volumes as to the weltanschauung of the Pressburgian educational system.</p>