Only ten shekel

Last week I rescued a book on Pirkei Avot that contained two commentaries. I found it on a heap of publications that had been piled up in disorderly fashion in a Jerusalem street sale. It cost just 10 shekels.

This book was quite unfamiliar to me and I suspect that it was privately published with a small print run since it bears no information concerning the place and date of publication, or indeed of a publisher. I have never seen any reference to it in other commentaries and have never heard it mentioned as a source.

The first of the two commentaries is the Tiferet Tzion of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev Yadler, author of the 18-volume Tiferet Tzion commentary on Midrash Rabbah and the Talmud. It comes with approbations from Rabbis Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky, Shabtai Shlomo Wigoder and Yitzchak Menachem Weinberg. Rabbi Yadler is the father of Rabbi Ben Tzion Yadler (1871-1962), a major figure in Jewish resettlement in Israel both before and after the founding of the state in 1948 and an early activist on behalf of education for girls.

The second commentary, the Kerem Chemed, is authored by Rabbi Yadler’s grandson, Rabbi Yehudah Rabinowitz. This commentary is shorter and focuses on a selection of mishnayot and baraitot.

If any reader knows anything about this book, can he or she please share it! I’d love to know more about its provenance and about its authors.