I have written before about the author of this book, Rabbi Abram Icyk Dziubas, who was born in Czestochowa in 1885 and died in England in 1947.
He was a prolific writer of extraordinary talents. When he was just ten years old, he was already studying Talmud with Toisefos (medieval commentaries on the Talmud) and it was predicted that he would become a young prodigy.
He wrote his first book “Milin Chadtin” (New Words) when he was about fifteen. After about a year, a second appeared – “Milin Yakirin” (Treasured Words). When he was eighteen, he published “Dgan Bochurim” (Grain of Youth) and, after a year, this book, “Zichron Avrahom” (Memory of Abraham). In 1905, following the death of the Gerer Rebbe, (known as the “Sfas Emes”), he published a eulogy to him in the form of a book entitled “Hesped Mar” (Bitter Eulogy).
My copy is the revised edition that was printed in Warsaw in 1924. It was sold in London by the Hebrew bookseller, R. Mazin and Company, of 141 Whitechapel Road, which demonstrates that Rabbi Dziubas had a wide and international readership.
Rabbi Dziubas’s books received haskomos (approbations) of great Rabbis in his generation, who valued his writings highly.
In 1925 he emigrated to Palestine, but did not manage well there. He then moved to Amsterdam, but found a lack of world-class Hebrew libraries for research. He moved to England in 1935 and after a stay in Leeds settled in Ramsgate, next to Montefiore College. He spent day and night in the college’s library, where deciphered old manuscripts and published them.
In 1940 he published, in Leeds, Milin DeRabanon MeTalmud HaYerushalmi (Sentences by the Rabbis of the Jerusalem Talmud), which I have written about before. In 1942 he published, in London “Sefer HaAsufos” composed by Rabbi Elijah of Carcassonne, which I have also written about before.
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