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Igereth Rav Sherira, R. Aaron Hyman, London 1911

אגרת דרבינו שרירא גאון - First Edition

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  • Lot Number 51899
  • Title (English) Igereth Rav Sherira
  • Title (Hebrew) אגרת דרבינו שרירא גאון
  • Note First Edition
  • Author R. Aaron Hyman
  • City London
  • Publisher Express
  • Publication Date 1911
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Physical Description

First edition. 109, [2] pp., quarto, 230:165 mm., crisp wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy cound in contemporary cloth over boards, rubbed.

 

Detailed  Description 

R. Aaron Hyman (1862–1937), Russian-born London rabbi and scholar. Hyman, born in Slutsk, Belorussia, studied at various yeshivot and in 1885 he settled in London. There he officiated as rabbinical supervisor and head shohet of the London community. He also served as an unsalaried rabbi of a congregation. Active in communal life, he helped found the Mizrachi organization of Great Britain and in 1909, the Etz Chaim Yeshivah of London. In 1933 he moved to Tel Aviv.

R. Hyman's first published work was Beit Va'ad la-Ḥakhamim (1901), a large collection of sayings from talmudic and rabbinic literature alphabetically arranged according to the catchword. An enlarged edition of the work appeared in 1934 in Tel Aviv under the title Ozar Divrei Hakhamim u-Fitgameihem. His major work, which took him 12 years to complete, was Toledot Tanna'im ve-Amora'im (3 vols., 1901–11; repr. 1964), a biographical dictionary of the sages of the Talmud. His addenda to this work included R. Sherira Gaon's "Epistle" with a commentary, Patshegen ha-Khetav. Torah ha-Ketuvah veha-Mesurah (3 vols., 1937–40) is a comprehensive index of all biblical references found in the Talmud, Midrash, and early rabbinic literature, the last two volumes being edited by his son Arthur and published posthumously. All his books have become indispensable aids to rabbis and scholars, and a number of new editions of them have appeared.

Added t.p.: Igereth Rav Sherira Gaon . Collated from various texts and edited with a critical commentary "Pathshegen Hakethab" by Aaron Hyman...

 

Hebrew Description

אגרת דרבינו שרירא גאון כפי הנוסח הנדפס ביוחסין [לר' אברהם זכות] דפוס קושטנדינא בשנת שכ"ו, בהשואה עם יתר הנוסחאות אשר נדפסו עד היום ע"פ כתבי יד שונים עם באור ופירוש בשם פתשגן הכתב... מבאר... כל דבר הקשה, ומציין המקורים... ומתקן את כל הטעותים והשגיאות שנפלו בו ע"י המעתיקים והמדפיסים... מאת אהרן היימאן...

על מהדורה זו, כותב ב"מ לוין, שם, עמ' XXXVI: "היינו מחזיקים טובה להמחבר לוא הדפיס באמת את נוסח היוחסין ... כי מלבד המקומות החסרים והשבושים והטעיות שכבר נמצאו בדפוס קושטא נוספו עליהם ... במהדורתו כהנה וכהנה". על נוסח האגרת במהדורה זו, שהוא הנוסח הספרדי, עיין: לוין, שם, עמ' XLVII.

          

Reference Description

A. Hyman, Toledot Tanna'im ve-Amora'im (repr., 1964), introd.; EJ; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960  #000181274