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Bidding Information
Lot #
14860
Auction End Date
6/13/2006 1:25:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Sefer ha-Middot
Title (Hebrew)
ספר המדות
Author
[Haskalah] Naphtali Herz Wessely
City
Vilna
Publisher
Joseph Reuven Mann
Publication Date
1870
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
72 ff., 165:106 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy not bound.
Detailed
Description
Sefer ha-Middot or Musar Haskel, a collection of essays on the essence of the soul and its faculties. The work reflects contemporary philosophical and ethical German thought. Sefer ha-Middot became popular among learned Jews in Eastern Europe. Naphtali Herz Wessely (Hartwig; 1725–1805), was an important member of the German Haskalah. Wessely's ancestors had fled Poland during the Chmielnicki pogroms and settled in Wesel on the Rhine from where the family took its name. Born in Hamburg, Wessely spent his childhood in Copenhagen where his father was a purveyor to the king of Denmark. He received his religious education at the yeshivah of Jonathan Eybeschuetz, who influenced him greatly, and read literature and scientific works in a number of European languages, Associated with the Feitel Bank, Wessely's business affairs took him to Amsterdam and Berlin. In Berlin he met Moses Mendelssohn and contributed a commentary on Leviticus (Berlin, 1782) to the Biur.
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Description
CD-EPI 0130636; EJ
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Russia-Poland:
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Subject
Other:
Haskalah
Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
