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Lot #    12949
Auction End Date    1/24/2006 10:29:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Prolegomenon in Eibrum Esther
Title (Hebrew)    מפתח אל מגלת אסתר
Author    [Only Ed. - Haskalah] R. Samuel Isaac Reggio
City    Vienna
Publisher    Anton Schmid
Publication Date    1841
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition., 59 pp., 175:105 mm., nice margins, light age staining, stamps, small paper repairs. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Scholarly introduction to the Scroll of Esther by R. Samuel Isacco Reggio (Ia-Sha-R; 1784–1855), Italian rabbi; one of the founders of the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano. He published an Italian translation of the Pentateuch, with a Hebrew commentary (Vienna, 1821), and wrote Ma'amar Torah min ha-Shamayim ("The Torah as Divinely Revealed," Vienna, 1818) to prove the divine authority of the Pentateuch. Among his other biblical works are: a poetic version in Italian of the Book of Isaiah (Udine, 1831); a Hebrew introduction to the Scroll of Esther (Vienna, 1841); and Italian translations of the books of Joshua, Ruth, and Lamentations, and of Pirkei Avot. In Ha-Torah ve-ha-Filosfyah (Vienna, 1827), written under the influence of Mendelssohn, Reggio tried to show that reason and philosophy were compatible with the Torah. His Iggerot Yashar (1834–36) are exegetic, historical, and philosophical notes in the form of letters to friends. He also edited some of the writings of Leone di Modena and wrote Behinat ha-Kabbalah (Gorizia, 1852). Reggio published other works on Kabbalah and philosophy in: Bikkurei ha-Ittim ha-Hadashim under the pseudonym Iashar. His autobiography, Mazkeret Yashar, appeared in Vienna (1849). His Hebrew correspondence with S. D. Luzzatto was collected by V. Castiglione (1902); it shows their mutual esteem and friendship. Reggio also wrote some halakhic and pedagogical works, one of which appeared in English: A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth (London, 1855). His views on Judaism did not always conform to tradition and led to polemics with German rabbis as well as his own father, Abraham Reggio.
          
Paragraph 2    מאת יצחק שמואל ריגייו.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0166452
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Polemics:    Checked
Other:    Haskalah
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica