Jekutiel Zalman Graubart, Będzin sermons : manuscript.
יקותיאל זלמן גרויברט, בענדין דרשות.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Graubart, Jekutiel Zalman, 1896-1941, author, scribe.

Language:

German

Hebrew

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Jewish sermons, Hebrew--Poland--Będzin--20th century.

Jewish sermons, Hebrew.

Jewish sermons, Yiddish--Poland--Będzin--20th century.

Jewish sermons, Yiddish.

Yiśakhar Berish, a.b.d. ḳ. Bendin ṿeha-galil, 1847-1913--Sermons.

Yiśakhar Berish.

World War, 1914-1918--Religious aspects.

World War, 1914-1918.

Pilgrim Festivals (Judaism).

Fasts and feasts--Judaism.

Fasts and feasts.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Poland--Będzin--20th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Yiddish--Poland--Będzin--20th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Yiddish.

Genre:

Manuscripts.

Sermons.

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Yalta Auction House (Brooklyn, N.Y.), December 2024.

Physical Description:

i, 34, i leaves : paper ; 21 x 18 cm + 1 note

Production:

Bendin, [1913-1920]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Yiddish; and a few words in German.

Biography/History:

Jekutiel Zalman Graubart (in Hebrew: יקותיאל זלמן גרויברט) studied in the Yeshiva of Radin (Radun, Belarus, under Israel Meir Kagan and Naftali Trop) was rabbi in Będzin, Poland, after he assumed the rabbinate from his father, Issachar Berisz Graubart (see: Sefer Sosnovits ṿeha-sevivah be-Zaglembiyah, v.1, p. 483); he emigrated to the United States in 1920, and was a rabbi in Brooklyn and afterward in Los Angeles; died 1941. His uncle was Yehuda Leib Graubart (1862-1937), formerly rabbi in Staszow, Poland, thereafter a rabbi in Toronto, Ontario.

Summary:

Manuscript sermons delivered in Będzin, annotated and edited; a sermon about the Sabbath (f. 2r-4r, with another note on f. 8v), on Jewish faith (f. 9r-11v), charity (f. 12r-v), Shavuʻot (f. 13r-18r, and another on f. 32r-33v), Shabat Naḥamu (the Sabbath immediately following the 9th of Av; f. 19r), "Schofar" (for Rosh ha-Shanah; f. 20r, and for Rosh ha-Shanah 5677 [1916] on f. 22r), Shabat Shuvah (f.23r-24v), a sermon decrying the contemporary Jewish conditions (called "Ashrekhem Yiśraʼel"; f. 25r-27r, with a bibliography on f. 27v), Shemini Atseret (f. 28r-v), on the Yahrzeit of his father (Shabat Toledot 5677 [25 November 1916]; f. 29r-v), Shabat Ṿa-era combined with Shabat mevarkhim (f. 30r-v), a sermon on the outbreak of war (the First World War; f. 31r-v).

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.

Written on a commercial notebook, with black patterned board binding (parts missing, cracked, and warped); manufacturer's label retained ("Fabryka Kajetów "KONKURENCYA" A Zmigroda w Będzinie INTROLIGATORNIA" "15 kop."); stamped inside volume ("PREZES ZARZĄDU"); Graubart's autograph on front flyleaf; list of names on rear flyleaf in German, possibly in a different hand.

Contains bibliographies (following some sermons).

Cited as:

Jekutiel Zalman Graubart, Będzin sermons (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 777). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1526346056