Aneh Ksil - a Polemic Booklet by the Forger Friedlander, against Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter, the First to Publish the ...

Aneh Ksil - a Polemic Booklet by the Forger Friedlander, against Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter, the First to Publish the Forgery - Handwritten Corrections by the Author
A few months after the publication of the forged "Jerusalem Talmud", the Rabbi of Rotterdam, Holland, Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter published an article in the journal "Der Yisralite" in which he explicitly claimed that the Jerusalem Talmud is forged. This claim astounded the entire Jewish world, and made the first cracks in the forger's operation.
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, author of the "Or Sameach" sent Rabbi Ritter a letter which strengthened his opinion. The researcher of the Jerusalem Talmud from Vilna also concurred with his opinion.

Friedlander published a work opposing Rabbi Ritter in 1908, by the name of "Aneh Ksil – Or Al Shlosha Poshei Yisrael". An extremely biting booklet, full of terrible disgraces and shameful mockings against Rabbi Ritter and the rest of the great Rabbis who claimed that Friedlander had performed a low trick. The forger also printed letters of recommendation which he received from great Rabbis, including Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik.
The author of the booklet was presented as "Avraham Rosenberg Av Beit Din of the congregation of S.P and a student of the Rabbi the publisher of the Jerusalem Talmud on the order of Kodshim". In retrospect it was discovered, of course, that Rosenberg is Friedlander himself… (the booklet was printed in the same printing press that the forged volumes of the Jerusalem Talmud were printed in!)

On the booklet's title page is printed: "An open answer to Dr. Ritter (and his assistants and assistants' assistants until the end of the world) on his criticism of the Jerusalem Talmud, order of Kodshim".
At the end of the booklet is printed: "End of the first booklet"; but no further booklets appeared with this name. However, in the subsequent years the forger published additional polemic booklets under other assumed names…

Therefore, before us is the first booklet out of those which Friedlander printed in defense of his deceitful operation and to attack those who claim he is forging.
The polemic on the Jerusalem Talmud lasted for a number of years, throughout which books were published by both sides, and it caused an uproar throughout the Jewish world.
The copy before us is unique because it contains four amendments in the author's handwriting. On the second page the author completed several words which were smudged in printing by hand.
16 pages. 20 cm. Page size varies.
Condition: Very Good.