Yalkut Nachmani [1937]. Literary Theft with Enthusiastic Approbations from Leading Admo"rs who were Unaware that ...

Yalkut Nachmani [1937]. Literary Theft with Enthusiastic Approbations from Leading Admo"rs who were Unaware that the Book was a Fraud

"The idea sparkled in his mind to buy books and change the name, and to publish them under his own name ..." Rabbi Menachem Kasher.

Literary theft which didn't receive much attention, with enthusiastic approbations from the leading Admo"rs of Poland who were unaware that the book was entirely copied.

The copier employed two talmudic scholars from Lodz and instructed them to copy the book Torat Shlomo by Rabbi Kasher, but instead of arranging the midrashim according to the verses as Rabbi Kasher had done, to arrange them in 12 "gates." Rabbi Kasher discovered this when he was approached in New York and told that there was already a similar work preceding the one he had toiled over. When Rabbi Kasher opened the book, he was surprised to find a lengthy and enthusiastic approbation by Rabbi Menachem Ziemba of Warsaw, especially given that Rabbi Ziemba had himself received a copy of Torat Shlomo. Rabbi Kasher sent a letter expressing his astonishment to Rabbi Ziemba, who answered that indeed he had made a mistake, for which he apologizes. Rabbi Ziemba added that he knows that the author (who had passed away in the meantime) had repented, and it will certainly benefit him if the matter is publicized for his atonement. For this reason, Rabbi Kasher publicized the whole story in the introduction to Torat Shlomo on VaYakhel-Pekudei.

We will note for the benefit of the copier, that he added a beautiful section to the book which was not in Torat Shlomo, called 'Divrei Chachamim' in which he copied large passages from the Later Authorities on the verses.

[4] 347 leaves. 27 cm.

Very fine condition. Original binding.