Bidspirit auction | (GUTTMACHER, ELIYAHU). Yisroel Shain.  Aliyath

(GUTTMACHER, ELIYAHU). Yisroel Shain.  Aliyath Eliahu [eulogy for R. Eliyahu Guttmacher]. FIRST EDITION. A special presentation copy with full-page poetic dedication in gold and blue signed by the author in Hebrew and German inserted after the title. Illustrations of Jerusalem, Kever Rachel and R. Meir Baal Haness. Author’s stamp on title-page. Formerly in the collection of R. Hayyim Liberman of Lubawitz. pp. 16. Dampstained. Contemporary boards. 8vo. Jerusalem, Y.D. Frumkin, 1875. R. Eliyahu Guttmacher of Greidetz (Graetz) (1795-1874), a disciple of R. Akiva Eger, was known as a Kabbalist and wonder-worker. Although not aligned with the Chassidic movement, he nonetheless carried all the trappings of a Chassidic Rebbe and was venerated as the Wonder Rabbi of Western Europe. Together with R. Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer (another student of R. Akiva Eger), R. Guttmacher was active in behalf of the welfare of Eretz Israel.  The author studied in R. Guttmacher’s Yeshiva Shnoth Eliyahu in Jerusalem. According to Halevi, the poem on p. 13-15 was written by R. Chaim Hirschensohn whose father was the Rosh Yeshiva. The final leaf contains an announcement of a manuscript for sale written by R. Abraham Azulai and signed by his grandson the Chid’a.  According to Shoshana Halevi (no. 254) only 130 copies of this work were published.