Bidspirit auction | Responsa Menachem Meshiv – Frankfurt

Responsa Menachem Meshiv – Frankfurt am Main 1938 – One of the Last Seforim Printed in Frankfurt am Main before the Holocaust – Stamp of the Author Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirschenbaum. - Responsa Menachem Meshiv, Part II, by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirschbaum. [Frankfurt am Main, printed by Yechiel Michel Feld, 1939]. This volume was printed without a title page and was never completed in print. The first leaf bears the stamp of the author: ”Menachem Mendel Kirschbaum, Av Beit Din and Rosh Yeshiva of the Holy Community of Frankfurt am Main.” This sefer is among the last Hebrew books printed in Frankfurt am Main before the Holocaust. This copy includes the approbations originally printed in Part I of the work, including those of the gaon Rabbi Nachum Weidenfeld of Dąbrowa and the gaon Rabbi Shmuel Aharon Miller of Labawa. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirschbaum (1895–1943; Otzar HaRabbanim no. 13526) served as rabbi of the town of Skala near Kraków. In 1928 he moved to Germany and was appointed rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, later also serving in Berlin and Mannheim. He authored the works Menachem Meshiv and Tziyun LeMenachem. He was murdered in the Holocaust in 1943, may his memory be for a blessing. [2], 336 pages. 23 cm.