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LOT 3:
(Responsa) Avodat HaGershuni First edition, Frankfurt-am-Main 1699
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(Responsa) Avodat HaGershuni First edition, Frankfurt-am-Main 1699
Sefer Shut Avodat HaGershuni' Responsa by Rabbi Gershon Ashkenazi. Frankfurt A.M. 1699. First edition
[4], 94. [4] pages. 30 Cm.
Overall in good-Very good condition, light worming in margins of a few pages, later simple binding.
Given as a wedding present to Rabbi Shlomo Baumgarten from his friend R' David Weinberger.
Rabbi Gershon Rabbi Gershon son of Rabbi Yitzchak Ashkenazi (1715-1693), one of the greatest rabbis and leaders of his generation, who raised many students. Born in Olaf (Germany), He was a student of the Bach, the Magini Shlomo and Rabbi Menachem Mendel, author of the Tzemach Tzedek Responsa (HaKadmon). Served as a Dayan in Kraków, and as Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Prostitz and Nickelsburg (Moravia), Vienna (Austria). After the deportation of Austrian Jews, he became a rabbi and Av Beit Din of Metz (France).
