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[ANAV, YECHIEL BEN YEKUTHIEL(?) / ANAV, ZEDEKIAH BEN AVRAHAM(?)] Sepher Tanya [compilation of Jewish law and custom as applied by the Jews of Italy]. Second edition. On title, signature and stamp of R. Akiva Yoseph Schlesinger (author Lev Ivri) and stamp of his son R. Shimon Schlesinger. ff. (6), 136. Stained, marginal repairs, wormed in places. Later calf-backed boards, rubbed. 4to. Vinograd, Cremona 36. Cremona, Vicenzo Conti, 1565. The R. Akiva Yoseph Schlesinger (”Lev Ivri”) Copy.   A longtime resident of Jerusalem, R. Akiva Yoseph Schlesinger (1838-1922) was born in Pressburg, Hungary, where his Mohel was the Chasam Sofer. Later, Schlesinger studied in the Pressburg Yeshiva of R. Abraham Samuel Benjamin Schreiber (the Kethav Sopher). Schlesinger's most famous work, Lev Ivri, is a commentary to the ethical will of the Chasam Sofer, calling for unswerving adherence to tradition. Nonetheless, Schlesinger could be innovative within the confines of Jewish law. Thus, he wore the recently-discovered blue thread of Techeleth and blew the shofar on the Sabbath in the Old City of Jerusalem. Furthermore, he was instrumental in settling Eretz Israel, specifically the establishment of the new settlement of Petach Tikvah. See M.A.Z. Kinstlicher, HeChatham Sofer VeTalmidav (2005) p. 534; N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, A-16803. Sepher Tanya:   “An assemblage of all the laws and customs proper for every Jewish man, in clear and easy language” (title). Due to the many similarities between this work and Shibolei HaLeket, it has been suggested that the authors of the two works were either students of the same teacher, or that one of the works was intended to be a concise form of the other. See M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Book, pp. 564-5.