HALBERSTAM, SOLOMON (Zalman) ḤAYYIM
- HALBERSTAM, SOLOMON (Zalman) ḤAYYIM
- HALBERSTAM, SOLOMON (Zalman) ḤAYYIM
(known from his acronym as ShaZHaH; 1832–1900), Polish
scholar and bibliophile. Halberstam was born in Cracow and studied with
his father, Isaac Halberstam, an eminent talmudist. During his years as
a successful merchant in Bielsko (Bielitz), Poland, he collected rare
books and manuscripts. He studied some and lent others to Jewish
scholars. Halberstam was one of the founders of the
mekize nirdamim society. In addition to scholarly articles and
notes to the works of other scholars, he published with introductions
and notes some of the manuscripts from his library, among them being
yom tov b. abraham 's novellae on tractate Niddah, Ḥiddushei
ha-Ritba (1868); abraham ibn ezra 's Sefer
ha-Ibbur (1874); and judah b. barzillai 's Sefer
ha-Shetarot (1898) and Perush Sefer Yeẓirah (1885). In
1890 he published Kohelet Shelomo, a catalog of his
manuscripts which listed 411 items. After Halberstam's death most of his
manuscripts were sold to the Judith Montefiore College in Ramsgate,
England, and are now at Jews' College, London. The majority of the
printed books in his library and a small part of his manuscript
collection were acquired by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
and the library of the Vienna community. Most of his correspondence is
preserved in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Halberstam
also wrote notes to H. Michael's bibliographical work Or
ha-Ḥayyim (in the Mosad ha-Rav Kook edition, 1965).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
N. Sokolow (ed.), Sefer Zikkaron le-Soferei Yisrael ha-Ḥayyim
Ittanu ha-Yom, (1889), 28; G. Bader, Medinah
ve-Hakhameha (1934), 76–77; Davidson, in: Yad va-Shem… A.S.
Freidus (1929), 1–14 (Heb. sect.); Zeitlin, Bibliotheca, index; B.
Wachstein et al. (eds.) Hebraeische Publizistik in Wien, 2
(1930), 17; Shunami, Bibl., 890.
(Abraham Meir Habermann)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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