Among a collection of rare books I acquired, was a Manuscript containing the Library catalog of Sally Guggenheim, Basel, Switzerland.
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| Sally Guggenheim |
Solomon "Sally" Gugenheim (deceased 1937), was Consul General of Yugoslavia in Switzerland, prosperous businessman in the wool industry, one of Basel's most prominent community leaders, who additionally played an important role for Agudas Yisrael of Europe.
On Guggenheim see
here and
here
and Oma's Story (Lucie Prenzlau pg. 8 et passim)
Much can be learned about a man and his beliefs or lack of beliefs from such a catalog, below see a few scans of the catalog for such examples.
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| In section above, Guggenheim goes an aside discussing the forged Yerushalmi on Kodshim of Friedlander |
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| See under Besamim Rosh where he discusses the status of the author |
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| Notice the presence of Mendelssohn's Beur. Of note is the total lack of any Kabbalistic works, even of the basic texts such as the Zohar |
hat-tip: J. Djmal
It's interesting. He writes מי יודע אמיתת הדברים ש as it he was unsure, and then immediately writes parenthetically that its obvious the language is different than the other (i.e., the real) Yerushalmi.
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