Rabbi Ganzfried's two million Kitzurs - Shlomo Ganzfried's book 'Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh

2. Joseph Buchsbaum, ed., Pnei Shlomo (Jerusalem: Machon Yerushalayim, 1989), p. 18.

3. Yekutiel Yehuda Greenwald, LeToldot HaReformatzion HaDatit BeGermania Uv'Ungaria (New York, 1948), p. 93.

4. See, e.g., the memoir by his grandson Yehezkel Banet in Shem Shlomo (Varal, 1908). Another primary biographical sketch is by Chaim Brody (also a grandson) in Otzar HaSifrut, Vol. III (Krakow, 1889), pp. 55-61.

5. Zev Wolf Reisman, Belt Aharon (Ungvar, 1865).

6. Quoted by Shaul Berman, "Zeb Sefer Toldot Adam," HaModiya, 25 Tammuz, 5747 [1987], p. 7.

7. Haskama to Misgeret HaShulchan (Lublin, 1877).

8. This edition includes Ganzfried's laudatory haskama but omits his proscription against combining the two works.

9. Reprinted in Sinai, Vol. 93, 1983, pp. 52-58.

10. Yehuda Spiegel, Ungvar (Tel Aviv, 1993), p.156.

JACK E. FRIEDMAN, Professor Emeritus of English and former dean at the City University of New York, is working on a biography of Rabbi Ganzfried. He lives in Jerusalem.

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