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Lot #    16224
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 1:29:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Das Buch Josua
Title (Hebrew)    ρτψ ιδεως
Author    [First Ed.] R. Raphael Breuer
City    Frankfort am Main
Publisher    Saenger & Friedberg
Publication Date    1915
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. XI, 183, [1] pp., 228:154 mm., usual age staining, wide margins, stamps. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Raphael Breuer (1881–1932), district rabbi at Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; son of R. Solomon Breuer. His candidacy for the succession to his father's office led to a bitter struggle in the Frankfort congregation in which the majority, the Israelische Religionsgesellschaft (under R. Jacob Rosenheim's leadership), opposed the narrow Orthodoxy with which the name of Breuer had become associated. R. Raphael Breuer's published works include translations and commentaries (in German) on the Five Scrolls (1908–12; 1924); on the Former Prophets (2 vols., 1915–22); and on Ezra and Nehemiah (2 vols., 1933–38). An appreciation of the ideas of his grandfather R. S. R. Hirsch was contained in R. Breuer's Unter seinem Banner (1908). His strong anti-Zionist views were aired in Nationaljudenthum ein Wahnjudenthum (1903) and other polemics.

The literalist interpretation of his commentary on the Song of Songs (1912) caused some scandal among the Orthodox; in the second edition (1923), he gave a more traditional rendering. The 1912 edition is believed to have cost him the Frankfurt rabbinate position.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica