Bidspirit auction | Rare Autograph Collection of Documents

Rare Autograph Collection of Documents and Certificates Signed by Leading Hungarian Rabbis; 1853–1884 Large handwritten collection from the rabbis of various Hungarian communities, including disciples of prominent figures such as the Baruch Tam, Chassam Sofer, Maharam Banet and others. The collection includes birth certificates, marriage licenses and other documents that the rabbis of these communities had the authority or were mandated to issue and sign. The documents are all written in foreign languages. 1. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Oppenheim , author of Einei HaDaas against the Reform Rabbi Aharon Churiner. He discoursed with the Chassam Sofer. [Document dated 1858] 2. Rabbi Pinchas Katz was a scholarly Kabbalist and author of Minchas Pittim. He discoursed with the Baruch Taam. [1870] 3. Rabbi Avraham Yechezkel Reich was the ab”d of Bannewitz and the son of Rabbi Kappel Charif, ab”d of Werbau. He authored Toras Yechezkel. [Document dated 1867] 4. Rabbi Pesach Singer was the ab”d of Plata and Kirchdorf. The Ksav Sofer greatly admired him and said in jest that “there is no ‘pesach sheini’ in these times” meaning that there was no one like him. 5. Rabbi Elazar Furst was the ab”d of Diandiash. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Stein, author of Ir Shushan. [Document dated 1856] 6. Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Kutna was the son of Rabbi Aharon Kutna and served as the ab”d of Sabadka. He authored Mishpat Tzedek. [Document dated 1891] 7. Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe Katz was the ab”d of Petzel. He discoursed with the Chassam Sofer. [Document dated 1872] 8. Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Kappel Singer 9. Rabbi Mordechai Seligman 10. Rabbi Pesach Avraham Sheinfeld 11. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Fisher 12. Rabbi Moshe Greenwald 13. Rabbi Chanoch Henoch Fisher 14. Rabbi Yehuda Leibush Sapir 15. Rabbi Mordechai Amram Hirsch 16. Rabbi Yechezkel Moshe Fishman-Lifshitz 17. Rabbi David Yehuda Leib Strasser 18. Rabbi Yisrael Kutna 19. Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu Estreicher 20. Rabbi Yehuda Leib Lowi 21. Rabbi Yitzchak Gavriel Krieg 22. Rabbi Yaakov Steinhart 23. Rabbi Moshe Kasher 24. Rabbi Shimon Tzvi Fishman 25. Rabbi Shaul Ulman The majority of these certificates are dated between 1853 – 1884. Majority in good condition with original red wax seals