Selection list Prager
The library of Rabbi Dr. Isaac Prager (1847-1905) is part of the historic old collection of the Murhard Library of the City of Kassel. It entered their collection as early as 1906. more
It was mainly due to the generous financial commitment of the friends and supporters that it was possible to start the restoration of important pieces from this collection. more
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Yeshayah Horoṿits: Sefer shene luḥot ha-brit. - Amsterdam: Atias, 5458 [1698].
Shelf mark: Rabbinica 509 Summary: Yeshayah Horoṿits (born c. 1555 in Prague, died c. 1630 in Safed) was a rabbinic scholar and kabbalist. He held rabbinical posts in several Jewish centers in Europe, including Frankfurt am Main and Prague. Shene luḥot ha-brit, abbreviated SheLaH, is his major work. Yeshayah Horoṿits is usually called SheLaH or the holy SheLaH after this work. Shene luḥot ha-brit is an encyclopedia of the religious ideas of Judaism. It was a widely used popular religious book.
Necessary work: Mechanical cleaning and restoration of damaged leaves, binding restoration with addition of missing parts, reconstruction of clasps, reassembly of endpapers and binding.
Restoration costs: ca. 1700 Euro
Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi: Gedolim maʿaśe H. - Hag: Zusmans, 5537 [1777].
Shelf mark: Rabbinica 543
Summary: Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi (born 1513 in Egypt, died 1585 in Cracow) was a rabbi, physician, and poet. Among other positions, he was rabbi in Fustat and provincial rabbi in Posen. The work Gedolim maʿaśe H(Maʿaśe ha-Shem) includes explanations of the historical content of the Torah and a commentary on the Pesaḥ-Hagadah. Necessary work: Mechanical cleaning, restoration and reattachment of damaged leaves and quires, binding restoration with the addition of missing parts, reassembly of the book block, endpapers and binding.
Restoration costs: approx. 2,250 euros
Tsevi Hirsh ben Yehudah Leyb mi-Ṿoidislov: Sefer Erets Tsevi. - Prague: Diesbach, 5546 [1786].
Shelf mark: Rabbinica 2047 Summary of content: sermons of Tsevi Hirsh ben Yehudah Leyb from Wodzisław (lived in the 18th century). Necessary work: Mechanical cleaning, restoration and re-stitching of damaged leaves, binding restoration with addition of missing parts, re-mounting of endpapers and binding.
Restoration costs: ca. 1.500 Euro
Torah with Aramaic translations
Shelf mark: Rabbinica 511
Summary: Under the shelfmark Rabbinica 511 is a complete set of all five books of the Torah with Aramaic translations(Targum Onḳelos, Targum Yonatan ben ʿUziʾel, Targum Yerushalmi) and various commentaries (Rashi, Rashbam, Baʿal ha-Ṭurim, Ibn Ezra). None of the books has a title page; presumably they come from four different editions.
This volume is the book ṿa-Yiḳra (Leviticus).
Shelf mark: Rabbinica 511[3
Necessary work: Binding restoration with the addition of missing parts, reconstruction of the clasps, reassembly of the endpapers and binding.
Restoration costs: ca. 1.500 Euro
Mordekhai ben Meʾir Ḳalmanś: Sefer tavnit ha-bayit. - Frankfurt an der Oder, 5507 [1747].
Shelf mark: Rabbinica 2048
Summary: A didactic poem, with a commentary. Necessary work: Mechanical cleaning, restoration and re-binding of damaged leaves, binding restoration with addition of missing parts, re-mounting of individual quires, endpapers and binding.
Restoration costs: approx. 1.150 Euro
