Ayelet HaShachar - Mukacheve, 1875 - Copy of the First Dej Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Paneth, Disciple of the Chatam ...

Ayelet HaShachar - Mukacheve, 1875 - Copy of the First Dej Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Paneth, Disciple of the Chatam Sofer
Ayelet HaShachar on Megillat Esther, by R. Ze'ev Wolf Tannenbaum Rabbi of Verpelét. With the book Livyat Or, Aggadic novellae by his grandson R. Meir Tannenbaum son of R. Ya'akov Rabbi of Putnok. Mukacheve, 1875. First edition.
Preceding the title page is a handwritten ownership inscription: "This book belongs to the world renowned R. Menachem Mendel Paneth" [apparently, the last three words, "Menachem Mendel Paneth", are in his own handwriting. Compare to his signature in Kedem Auction 58, Lot 37; Kedem Auction 54, Lot 256]. The title page bears a stamp of his maternal grandson, R. "Yechezkel Isaac Paneth son of R. Shabtai".
R. Menachem Mendel Paneth, Rabbi of Dej (1818-1885), son of the Rebbe author of Mar'e Yechezkel (disciple of R. Mendel of Rymanów, served as Rabbi of Carlsberg and of Transylvania). In 1837, he studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer and was the only student there who donned Chassidic silk garb on Shabbat. His teacher, the Chatam Sofer, was very fond of him and used to walk in conversation with him every Friday [he dubbed him the "golden one"]. During the period he studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva, he merited a revelation of Eliyahu HaNavi, who greeted him in the Beit Midrash disguised as a pauper. From 1842 he served as Rabbi of Urisor, from 1858 as Rabbi of Dej, and in 1855 was appointed Chief Rabbi of Transylvania. He wrote Maaglei Tzedek on the Torah and the Avnei Tzedek, Shaarei Tzedek and Mishpat Tzedek series of responsa.
R. Yechezkel Yitzchak Isaac Paneth-Nissel, son of R. Shabtai Nissel, author of Mevaser Tov, who was the son-in-law of the Dej Rebbe and is mentioned in the introduction to Mevaser Tov (Klausenburg, 1915): "My first wife, the pious Mrs. Tila daughter of R. Menachem Mendel Paneth… died in her youth and she left me only one son R. Yechezkel Yitzchak, who was born ten years after our marriage due to the prayers of the holy Rebbe of Sanz".
87, [5] leaves. 23 cm. Good condition. Contemporary, torn and detached binding.