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Lot #    35143
Auction End Date    7/17/2012 1:11:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Keter Shem Tov
Title (Hebrew)    כתר שם טוב
Author    [Hasidic] R. Aharon ben Zevi ha-Kohen of Apta
City    Podgorze
Publisher    Saul Hananiah Deutscher
Publication Date    1898
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 23; [1], 26 ff., 4°, 200:164 mm., light age staining, old hands and stamps. A good copy bound in later half leather and cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Important collection of tales and stories of the marvelous deeds of the Ba’al Shem Tov, as well as his recorded sayings, assembled from the works of his talmidim. Keter Shem Tov was prepared by R. Aharon ben Zevi ha-Kohen of Apta. The title page notes that much of the contents are from the books of R. Jacob Joseph ben Zevi Ha-Kohen Katz Of Polonnoye (d.c. 1782), the Ba’al Shem Tov’s leading disciple. Those works are Toledot Ya’akov Yosef, Ben Porat Yosef, and Zafenat Pa’ne’ah. Keter Shem Tov was brought to press by R. Zevi Hirsch ben Moses Lindenbaum, who writes that although Keter Shem Tov has often been printed many of the printers of the early editions of this holy work omitted material. This edition, in contrast, is complete. Keter Shem Tov is in two parts, each with its own title page. The first part has an approbation from R. Menahem Mendel of Liska, R. Solomon of Karlin, and R. Abraham Moses of Prosvarsk. Below is the testament of the Ba’al Shem Tov. The text follows in two columns in rabbinic type, excepting headers and initial words. The title page and arrangement of the text of part two are like that of part one.
          
Paragraph 2    נדפס כמה פעמים אך הרבה אמרים השמיטו המדפיסים... וכעת הבאתיו לבית הדפוס מספר ישן... בשלמות... הצעיר צבי דוב בן... ר' משה לינדענבוים נ"י מקראקא... חלק א-ב.
          
Reference
Description		    BE caph 775; CD-EPI 0139460
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica