Two handwritten pages, title page and introduction to the composition "Esh U'Mayim", on the principles of the Talmud, handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Stern, Dayan of Nove Zamky. [1939]. These pages were drafts for a composition on the principles of the Talmud that was never printed.
R. Avraham Stern (1884-perished in the Holocaust 1944), author of "Melitzei Esh", "Gapei Esh", "Kitvei Esh", "Misdar Chilukim V'Shitot", and others); disciple of Maharam Schick, of the author of Shevet Sofer and of the author of Arugot HaBosem. He was the son-in-law and close assistant of R. Yosef Meir Tigerman (1852-1944), rabbi of Nové Zámky (Neuhäusel, Érsekújvár). He was murdered in Auschwitz in Sivan 1944 together with his father-in-law who was almost 93 years old at the time, their families and the Nové Zámky Jewish community.
His three sons are the famous Torah scholars R. Bezalel Stern (1910-1988), author of Betzel HaChochma, rabbi of Vienna and Melbourne; R. Mordechai Stern (1909-1934), author of Rav Chessed; and R. Moshe Stern (1914-1997), the Rabbi of Debrecen-US, author of Be'er Moshe.
[4] pages, 21X17 cm. Fair condition; wear, tears and stains. Some tears repaired with adhesive tape.