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Single Edition of a Eulogy for Rabbi Shaul of Hague. Amsterdam, 1786

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Sefer Givat Shaul – eulogy for Rabbi Shaul Halevi Av Beis Din of Hague – Amsterdam, 1786 – single edition – copy of Rabbi Shlomo Kluger of Vienna, author of Si’ach Shlomo (grandson of the famed Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Kluger) – Interesting signature and notation


Written on the title page: "הספר הזה קניתי זה עתה בבודאפעסט יום אחד אחר היאצ"ט של אמי הצנועה מרת פעסיל קלוגר ע"ה שנפטרה ביום כ"ז סיון התרע"ה ובאתי הנה על היאצ"ט כ"ז סיון תרע"ו" (I have bought this book now in Budapest, a day after the Yahrzeit of my modest mother Mrs. pesil Kluger who passed away on the 27th of Sivan 1915 and I came here for the Yahrzeit the 27th of Sivan 1916). Beside the notation, the signatures of its writer: "Shlomo Kluger" – the son of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Binyomin Kluger (the son of the famed Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Kluger) author of the book Si’ach Shlomo (Pressburg, 1917). 

The writer, Rabbi Shlomo Kluger of Vienna, printed in his book Si’ach Shlomo (p. 73 and onward) a eulogy for his mother Pesil, describing her virtues at length. Among others, her son notes that "her in-law Rabbeinu the Gaon Kadosh who respected her very much"/ 
 
[3], 8; 18 leaves. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Original leather binding.