Solomon Pucher rabbinical correspondence diary and commonplace book miscellany : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Pucher, Solomon, 1829-1898, author, compiler, scribe.

Contributor:

Volaski, Aryeh, shohet (Charleston, S.C.), writer of added text.

Ash, Avraham, writer of added text.

Rausuk, Samson H., writer of added text.

ראויזוק, שמשון.

Language:

German

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish religious education--Lithuania--19th century.

Jewish religious education.

Shehitah.

Rabbis--Lithuania--Kudirkos Naumiestis--19th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis.

Rabbis--Lithuania--Vilnius--19th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis--Lithuania--Kalvarija--19th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis--Poland--Boćki--19th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis--Poland--Suwałki--19th century--Correspondence.

Rabbis--South Carolina--Charleston--19th century.

Rabbis--New York (State)--New York--19th century.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Lithuania--Kudirkos Naumiestis--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Latvia--Jelgava--19th century--Specimens.

Genre:

Sammelbands.

Manuscripts, European.

codices (bound manuscripts)

commonplace books.

Responsa (Jewish law)

Manuscripts.

Eulogies.

Religious poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Taj Art (Jerusalem), Auction 14 (9 July 2024) lot 175.

Physical Description:

52 leaves : paper ; 20 cm

Production:

Ṿladeslaṿoṿa [Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania], 1853 [-1871]

וולאדיסלאוואווא, תרי"ג [-תרל"א]

Other Title:

title page : Ketav yosher, hu ha-ḥeleḳ ha-rishon kolel ḳevutsat ha-rishon, me-dabarot me-ḥayay asher nivḥar le-mah higiaʻ elaṿ ; kulan ḥadashot, netsmadot ṿe-nikhbadot akh le-demut ṿe-toʼar bi-leshon tsaḥ ṿe-ḳal, me-roʻeh eḥad ni-teno, shenat [5]613 le-f.ḳ.

כתב יושר, הוא החלק הראשון כולל קבוצת הראשון, מדברות מחיי אשר נבחר למה הגיע אליו ; כולן חדשות, נצמדות ונכבדות אך לדמות ותואר בלשון צח ונקי, מרועה אחד נתנו, שנת תרי"ג לפ"ק

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew; one formulary in German (f. 49v).

Biography/History:

Rabbi, poet and writer in Kudirkos Naumiestis, then called Schirwindt-Neustadt (German) or Władysławów (Polish), and assumed the rabbinate following Josef Zecharia Stern; in 1859 he assumed the rabbinate in Mittau (today Jelgava, Latvia) and in Riga in 1893; he toiled and wrote on behalf of the rights of Jews in Latvia and Russia, and attended the 1864 Saint Petersbourg commission for Jewish rights in the Russian Empire.

Summary:

First manuscript volume of Solomon Pucher's correspondence and collectenea, with portions of responsa, Haskala poetry, copies of communal documents, and selections from rabbinical literature for use in sermons; in addition, Haskala literature and poetry, as well as materials sent to Pucher from friends and students. Correspondence include a letter sent to the Vilnius community requesting a communal doctor's fund be set up for the impoverished community of Kalvarija [Lithuania] (f. 7v-r), and to the rabbi of Suvalk (Suwałki, Poland; Israel Jaffe, whose ecomium is on f. 26r) ; correspondence to parents, friends, teachers and mentors, and writings during quarantine from illness (f. 11r-20r, including a letter from his son, Yosef Pucher, on f. 19r; spelled יוסף פוקיר); selections of literature include the text of a letter sent to Joel Loewe by Isaac Euchel in Berlin, 1788 (f. 8r-10v); novellae, including from the rabbi of Boזki [Poland] (f. 20v-21r) and his own novellae (f. 20v-24v); epitaphs, ecomiums for weddings (likely of his children) and Purim (including a printed broadside poem by the author's friend Samson Rausuk, then in London, dated 1849); a sermon from the preacher of Kaunas, and material on Shehitah (letters of recommendation for Shehitah for Puchner's son in law, Joseph Brill, from Aryeh Volavski, slaughterer in Charleston, and Abraham Ash, rabbi of Beth Hamidrosh Hagodol in New York, dated 1867; with additional letters and notes.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Binding paste-down is a sheet of congregants and sums pasted in, with a manuscript Rosh ha-Shanah greeting written in verse to Eliyahu Teomim, a friend of the author, of chronograms for the year 5611 [1850].

Cited as:

Solomon Pucher Rabbinical Correspondence Diary and Commonplace Book Miscellany (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 785). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Euchel, Isaac Abraham, 1756-1804. Correspondence. Selections.

Constituent Unit:

Container of (manifestation) : Rausuk, Samson H. Purim : 13 tenuʻot. [London] : [publisher not identified], [5]609 [1848 or 1849]

OCLC:

1534562897

Bound With:

Bound with: Rausuk, Samson H. Purim : 13 tenuʻot [London : [publisher not identified], [5]609 [1848 or 1849].