(Manuscript) Illustrated Family Tree of the Descendants of the Maharal of Prague. Kaminetz-Podolsk, 1851

(Manuscript) Illustrated Family Tree of the Descendants of the Maharal of Prague. Kaminetz-Podolsk, 1851

Family of Famed "Descendants of the Maharal of Prague" and famous personalities in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the family of the Admor Rabbi Schnuer Zalman the "Baal haTanya" and his descendants. Rabbi Yehoshua Tzeitlish of Shklov. The Rappaport, Sirkin, Razinow families and  many others.

Framed, manuscript 17 X 136 cm. Very fine condition.

Paper is reinforced onto material. Written as tables in chronological order.

Titles in colored  letters.  

At the conclusion of the Megilah: a full colophon with the editing rules.

Signed by the author and family tree creator Moshe Eliezer Beilinson. 

Kamenetz-Podolsk, [1851]

Important Manuscript.

 MOSES ELIEZER BELINSON  (or BEILINSON) was a Russian publisher and scholar.

Born at Odessa about 1835. He devoted himself chiefly to the study of the genealogy of old Russian Jewish families, to one of which he belongs. He wrote on this subject two works, "Megillat Yuḥasin" (Scroll of Genealogy), and "Yalḳuṭ Mishpaḥot" (Collection of Families), published at Odessa, 1892-94. These works, although of no great literary value, contain interesting contributions to the history of Jewish families in Russia & are still cited often today.

In the 1860s he established a Hebrew press in Odessa where in 1865 he edited "'Ale Hadas" (Myrtle Leaves), a periodical containing literary and scientific articles by the most eminent Russian scholars of the day, and issued a second edition of the "Sefer Elam" and "Ma'yan Gannin" of Salomon Joseph del Medigo, with notes and a biography of the author. Two other periodicals, "Yagdil Torah" (Magnifying the Law), and "Mekilta de Rabbanan" (The Rabbis' Study), dealing with questions concerning the Halakah and the exposition of the Talmud, were edited by Belinson (Odessa, 1871-81 and 1886-87); but, as in the case of the "'Ale Hadas, " only a few numbers appeared. He published also (Odessa, 1898) "Shelome Emune Yisrael" (The Perfectly Righteous Men of Israel), a collection of letters on literary subjects.

Belinson contributed to many Russian and Hebrew periodicals, and was very active in disseminating the Neo-Hebrew literature through his printing-office, from which were issued numerous works of the Russan "maskilim."