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Bidding Information
Lot #    10057
Auction End Date    4/19/2005 10:33:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    A Sermon
Author    R. Benjamin Artom
City    London
Publisher    Wertheimer, Lea and Co
Publication Date    1866
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First English edition. 23 pp., 200:128 mm., light age staining. A very good copy not bound, as published.
          
Detailed
Description		    Installation sermon of R. Benjamin Artom as Haham of the Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation on Decenber 16, 1866.

R. Benjamin Artom (1835–1879), rabbi, was born in Asti. After occupying rabbinical posts in Italy he became haham of the Sephardi community in London (1866), where he was especially active in education. An eloquent preacher in English, he published a collection of sermons (1873) and also wrote odes and prayers in Hebrew and poems in Italian.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica