Daṿid Aryeh Berḳman letter, to Zebi Hirsch Perelmann, 1870 July 1 : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Berḳman, Daṿid Aryeh, correspondent.

Contributor:

Soloveichik, Joseph Baer, 1820-1892, associated name.

Tsevi Hirsh ben Barukh, -1882, addressee.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797.

Elijah ben Solomon.

Printing, Hebrew--Belarus--Slutsk--19th century.

Printing, Hebrew.

Printing, Hebrew--Poland--Białystok--19th century.

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

Rabbis.

Rabbis--Belarus--Slutsk--19th century--Correspondence.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction, Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), auction 148, 30 March 2025, lot 262,

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 21 cm

Production:

Białystok, 1870 July 1

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 27 Folder 9

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Zebi Hirsch Perlmann, romanized Tsevi Hirsh ben Barukh Perlman, was a 19th-century Lithuanian Talmudist; born in Kaluszyn, Poland, later of Jerusalem; author of Netiv ha-yashar (Warsaw, 1879).

Summary:

Letter written on blue onionskin paper, written in a Lithuanian cursive script; autograph and postscript below letter.

Letter dated ʻerev Shabat Ḳoraḥ [1870], additionally dated 'Hosea IV' ("בהושע ד', ו' עש"ק קרח, בייאלעסטאק") to Zebi Hirsch Perelmann, then sojourning in Slutsk (he resettled from Lithuania to Jerusalem about this time), notifying him that manuscripts containing writings of Elijah ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon) were previously sent and requests that they are published (Perelmann published them in Jerusalem during the upcoming years: Yad Eliyahu (Buchhandlung Jeruschalmi E. Landau, [1882]), and Ḳol Eliyahu (printed after Perelmann died in 1905).

Postscript of requesting the addressee share regards to Joseph Baer Soloveichik [in Slutsk] ("מו"ר הגאון הצדיק שר התורה מאור הגולה, כש"ת מו"ה יוסף דובער הלוי ני"ו ויופיע לנצח"; author of (responsa) Sheʼelot u-teshuvot Bet Ha-levi, and an outstanding rabbinical figure in Lithuania.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Daṿid Aryeh Berḳman Letter, to Zebi Hirsch Perelmann (Misc Mss Box 27 Folder 9). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1564289691