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”Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer's signature on ””Chidushei Hari Migash””, Amsterdam 1702. Novella on tractate Bava Batra from Rabbi Yosef Halevi ibn Migash. First edition printed in Amsterdam 1702. Lacking title page and covers. Worm traces mainly till ff 8. Ownership signature of Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer – the leader of German Orthodox Jewry. Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899), among leading Torah giants of his generation. He served as rabbi in Eisenstadt where he founded a pioneer Yeshiva, in which secular studies were integrated - “Torah with Derech Eretz”. This development provoked opposition and criticism both by the reforms and by certain sects of the Orthodox community, however, Torah giants of Hungary and Germany recognized his greatness and supported his Yeshiva. In 1869 was appointed as Av Beit Din of Berlin, where he established his Rabbinical Beit Midrash.”