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Lot #    10203
Auction End Date    4/19/2005 12:57:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Jeschurun
Author    [Only Ed. - Haskalah] Aaron Wolfsohn-Halle
City    Breslau
Publisher    Adolf Gehr
Publication Date    1804
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [6], 233, [1] pp., 175:108 mm., usual age staining. A very good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Aaron Wolfsohn-Halle (1754–1835), taught in a Jewish public school in Breslau from 1792 to 1807, serving the last five years as its principal. Among the most radical of the early maskilim, he was one of the editors of Ha-Me'assef during its Berlin period, and editor in chief in 1797. Among his own various contributions to the periodical was the play Sihah be-Erez Ha-ayyim (in Ha-Me'assef, vol. 7, 1794–97), in which Maimonides and Moses Mendelssohn meet in paradise. The author praises Mendelssohn and combines his own radical views of the Haskalah with acrimonious remarks against the Talmud and the Kabbalah. His school text, Avtalyon (Berlin, 1790–18143), the first written for Jewish pupils, was a pioneer attempt to relate Bible stories in simplified Hebrew prose. In addition, Wolfsohn-Halle published the books of Job (1826) and I Kings (1827) in the Mendelssohn translation, with his own commentary; wrote in German, translating some biblical books into German; and published works in Yiddish, including Reb Hanokh ve-Reb Yosefkhi, a satirical play replete with Haskalah didacticism.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; Rejzen, Leksikon, 1 (1928), 904–10; idem. Fun Mendelssohn biz Mendele (1923), 25–68; Z. Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater, 1 (1931), 652–4.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
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Other:    Haskalah
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica