IMPORTANT JUDAICA ANTIQUE AND MODERN
Lot 60:
A LARGE STERLING SILVER MENORAH BY SIGMUND ZYTO
London, 1924. On a round base that is engraved with a dedication from the North Manchester Synagogue to Rev. H.F. Friedman on the occasion of his marriage in 1925. Rabbi Harry Mordechai Friedman (1901 Vitebsk – 1982 Melbourne) received his smicha from Jews College of London in 1924. He was appointed the minister of the North Manchester Synagogue. He married Rebecca Ginsberg on 17 March 1925 at Philpot Street Synagogue, Mile End, London. In 1938 he became rabbi of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation and became Av Bes Din of Melbourne. In 1947 he was appointed rabbi of the Elwood Talmud Torah Congregation and in 1950 became rabbi at Yeshiva Ketana of Bensonhurst. At the same time he taught Jewish philosophy at the Yavneh Seminary and at the Teachers’ Institute at Yeshiva University. In 1956, he became the senior rabbi at the Central Synagogue, Bondi Junction, Sydney. He was invited to serve on the Sydney Beth Din until his retirement in 1965. A world-renowned Hebrew scholar, Freedman translated into English eight of the thirty-four volumes of The Babylonian Talmud (1935-48) , Midrash Rabbah with Maurice Simon (ten volumes, 1939) and five volumes of Menahem Kasher’s Torah Shelemah (complete Bible) under the title Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation (1953-79), and translated and co-edited several of the volumes of the Encyclopedia Talmudica. 15.5â€? tall.
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