Bidspirit auction | Shir Hilulim [Poem In Honor

Shir Hilulim [Poem In Honor Of The Dedication Of A New Torah Scroll] - Amsterdam 1680 [BRAZIL RELATED] pp. (4) . 19 cm. Perfect condition. Not bound   Many times bound with Migdal David [commentary to the Book of Ruth] - lacking here The printer David Tartas commemoratively records on the title-page the name of his brother Isaac Tartas, who was burned at the stake during an Auto-da-fé. Isaac Tartas immigrated to Recife, Dutch Brazil in 1641. In 1644, he relocated to Bahia, which was under Portuguese jurisdiction. There, he was seized as a Judaizer and sent to Lisbon to be tried by the Inquisition. After a lengthy trial, in which Isaac steadfastly refused to abjure his Jewish faith, he was executed. This resulted in diplomatic exchanges between the Dutch and Portuguese Governments on behalf of other Jewish captives in Brazil who came from regions under Dutch sovereignty. See A. Wiznitzer, Isaac de Castro A Brazilian Jewish Martyr in: The Jewish Experience in America (1971) Vol. II pp.205-17. The volume contains a second Brazil-related association: The last page records the name of the compositor: “Jacob Haim ben Moses Raphael de Cordova of Brazil, ” - Also known as Jacob de Cordovera, he was the printer in 1681 of “Parafrasis Commentada sobre el Pentateucho” composed by Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, one-time Haham to Recife. See R. Weinstein, “Stones of Memory” in: American Jewish Archives Vol. XLIV (1992), pp. 106-7. The personal copy of Rebbe Nachum Dovber Friedman of Sadigura. The title page bears two of his stamps: one with his name, ”Nachum Dovber Friedman”, and a lion emblem in its center, and another - ”My acquisition”. Rabbi Nachum Dovber Friedman of Sadegura was the grandson of R. Yisrael of Ruzhin, son of R. Shalom Yosef and son-in-law of R. Avraham Yaakov of Sadigura. R. Nachum Dovber possessed a large library and used four different stamps for his books. Books inherited from his father were stamped ”Nachalat Avotai” (family inheritance); those he purchased were stamped ”Kinyan Kaspi” (my acquisition) and those received as gifts were stamped ”Minchat Shai” (gift). His library also included a small collection of books which his father-in-law received from converts who requested a tikkun for their souls. These are stamped ”Minchat Ger” (gift from a convert).