The author, Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Dünner, was born in Cracow, Poland, in 1833. He received semicha (his rabbinical degree) in his native city, and studied philosophy and Oriental philology at Bonn and Heidelberg. He received a PhD from the latter institution with a thesis on Abraham Ibn Ezra.
In 1862 he was called from Bonn to the Rectorate (i.e. the Headmastership) of the Nederlands Israelietisch Seminarium in Amsterdam. He soon made it famous as a school of Jewish theology, ancient languages, and religious philosophy. In 1874 he was made Chief Rabbi of the Amsterdam community and of the province of North Holland. The government recognized his ability and activity by decorating him with the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands.
My copy has the stamp of the Nederlands Israelitisch Seminarium as well as the penciled words ‘rektors kamer’ – headmaster’s room in Dutch – perhaps it was Rabbi Dünner’s own copy.
His series of books of Haggahot or glosses on the Talmud were printed from 1896 until after his death in 1911. My book, which includes both Chullin and Krisus, was published in 1910. The tractate of Chulin is about the laws that apply to ordinary animals. Krisus is about the 36 laws that if violated result in one being cut off from the Jewish people.
When people hear the name Joseph Hirsch Dünner, they usually think of Rabbi Dünner’s great nephew, Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner, who was named after him. Josef Hirsch Dunner was born in Cologne, Germany, on 4th January 1913. After establishing himself briefly as an orthodox rabbi in Germany, visas for Rabbi Dunner, his wife, and his son Abraham (Aba) were procured by Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, and Rabbi Dunner moved to England, where he spent the greater part of his life. He succeeded Rabbi Schonfeld in 1960 as Head of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, and of Adath Yisroel in which capacities he served until his death in 2007.
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I have the volume on Bava Kamma (vol. 12).
But I plan to give it to my nephew – who is a בן אחר בן and (partial) namesake of R. Yosef Tzvi Dünner – when he becomes a bar mitzvah in a few months!
I’m not so sure that he succeeded Rabbi Schonfeld. That task was given to R. Henoch Padwa author of שו”ת חשב האפוד.
Rabbi Dunner was given a somewhat meaningless title, as compensation for not getting the top job.
He was a yekje and the character of the Adass was changing from it’s yekke origins to being a chassidic organisation with chassidic members and rabbonim