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Lot #    11776
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 11:51:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    More light; rational treatise on Biblical subjects
Author    [Only Marharati Ed.] R. Louis Weiss
City    Bombay
Publisher    Aaron Jacob Divekar
Publication Date    1895
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only Marharati edition. 201:127 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in moden half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   Translation by Aaron Jacob Divekar of the 1893 original English edition.

The author was the Rabbi of Cong. B'nai Israel Congregation in Columbus, Ohio. In this volume he has written an apologia of Judaism which is addressed to the Christian reader. R. Weiss was also the author of other books, including: Some burning questions exegetical treatise on Christianizing of Judaism (Columbus 1893)and Talmudic and other legends: facts and fictions from olden times (1888).

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    India
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Marharati, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica