Five Books by Polish Rabbis – Copies of Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin

Five Books by Polish Rabbis – Copies of Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin

Collection of five books of halachah, homiletics and Talmudic novellae, containing the Torah teachings of rabbis of Poland and other lands. First editions. Distinguished copies, from the private library of R. Meir Shapiro, Rabbi of Lublin, founder of Daf Yomi and the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva.
The present copies contain R. Meir Shapiro's stamps from his tenure as Rabbi of Piotrków; library catalogue inscriptions [in his handwriting?]; stamps of the library of the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva; and various handwritten inscriptions. The books also contain stamps and a printed sticker of the Ministry of Religion for books that survived the Holocaust in Poland, and stamps of Israeli libraries.

• She'erit Natan by R. Natan, Rabbi of Dobromyl, son of the Pnei Yehoshua. Warsaw, 1897. First edition.
• Tzava Rav by R. Tzvi Hirsch, Rabbi of Berlin (grandson of the Chacham Tzvi). Piotrków, 1907. First edition. Wide margins.
• Shai LaMora, by R. Moshe Yoel [Hagerman], Rabbi of Czyżew and Żarnowiec, disciple of the Chidushei HaRim of Ger. Piotrków, 1911. First edition.
• Yavin Daat, by R. Yisrael Yehoshua Trunk, Rabbi of Kutno, with Chasdei Avot by his grandson, the publisher R. Yitzchak Yehudah of Kutno. Piotrków, 1932. On title page, handwritten dedication to R. Meir Shapiro by the "publisher and author" dated Chanukah 1932. On leaf 17, handwritten gloss [of R. Meir Shapiro?].
• Siach Pikudecha, on Bereshit, by R. Yeshayahu Chaskelberg of Warsaw and Różan. Bilgoraj, 1930. First edition. Approbations and lengthy pre-subscribers list including Polish rabbis and Chassidim.

R. Meir Shapiro (1887-1933), Rabbi of Glina, Sanok, Piotrków and Lublin, dean of the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva and founder of Daf Yomi, one of the founders of Agudat Yisrael and leading rabbi in his times. He was one of the youngest and most dominant rabbis in the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. An excellent orator, and an active communal worker, he was also a member of the Polish Sejm. R. Meir passed away without leaving behind any offspring, yet he himself would say that he has two children – the first being Daf Yomi, and the second the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva.

5 books. Size and condition vary. Overall good to good-fair condition. Stamps. New bindings.

PLEASE NOTE: Some lot descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to the Hebrew text.