This book is a continuation of Sefer Divrei Chachomim, published by Myer Joel Wigoder in Dublin, Ireland, in 1919.
R’ Myer Joel Wigoder was a lay-scholar who published fifteen works on Midrashic and Aggadic topics. He was born in the village of Vigoda, near Vexna, Lithuania in 1855 and had a thorough Yeshiva education. Upon losing all his possessions in a fire in the town of Laizovo soon after he was married, he emigrated in 1890 to Dublin, Ireland.
He selections below include interesting local items, such as when the Chief Rabbi of Belfast, Rabbi Herzog (grandfather of the current President of Israel) came to Dublin to be Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and the visit of the Chief Shochet (ritual slaughterer) of London, Mr. Levita.
Jewish Miscellanies 