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Lot #    14764
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 12:37:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kizzur Schulchan Aruch
Title (Hebrew)    קצור שלחן ערוך
Author    [First Ed.] R. Selig Bamburger, Trans.
City    Frankfort am Main
Publisher    A. J. Hofmann
Publication Date    1883
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition with translation. 3 v. [1134. pp.], 235:157 mm., v.1 lacks title, usual age staining, loose in contemporary cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    The Kizzur Shulhan Arukh by R. Solomon b. Joseph Ganzfried (1804–1886), with a full translation in parallel columns by R. Selig Bamburger. The work is an abbreviated version of the Code of Jewish Law. It achieved great popularity and widespread circulation and was accepted as the main handbook for Ashkenazi Jewry. It encompassed all the laws relating to the mode of life of the ordinary Jew living outside Erez Israel (including such subjects as etiquette, hygiene, etc.), but omitting such details as were common knowledge and practice at that time (see his introduction to ch. 80) or that were not essential knowledge for the ordinary man (see especially the laws of matrimony, ch. 145). The Kizzur Shulhan Arukh is based upon the Shulhan Arukh of R. Joseph Caro with the glosses of R. Moses Isserles. It is written in simple, popular language, with a lively style, and interest is sustained by the ethical maxims with which it is interlaced. Unlike his predecessor R. Abraham Danzig, author of the Hayyei Adam, R. Ganzfried does not detail and explain the different views but usually gives his decision without the reasoning. The book had already achieved 14 editions during its author's lifetime, and since then it has gone through scores of editions, displacing all previous abridgments of the Shulhan Arukh. It also became a basic work to which many scholars added marginal notes and novellae.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica