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Lot #    17817
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 11:39:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Rehovot ha-Be'ur on Ecclesiastes
Title (Hebrew)    רחבות הבאור על ספר קהלת
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Gabriel Suedfeld
City    Prague
Publisher    M. I. Landau
Publication Date    1850
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 52 ff. octavo 205:130 mm., nice margins, usual light age and damp staining, old hands, stamps. A very good copy bound in later half cloth, corners tipped in, embossed Gabriel Sudfeld.
          
Detailed
Description		    Judeo-German translation of Ecclesiastes with the text and a Hebrew commentary by R. Gabriel Suedfeld. There is an introduction from the author, followed by the text, comprised of the book of Ecclesiastes in large vocalized Hebrew in the inner column and facing it a Judeo-German translation in Hebrew letters. Below is the commentary Rehovot ha-Be'ur in rabbinic letters. The second part of the volume is Likkutei ha-Perahim (28b-51b), collected writings on the weekly Torah portion and a discourse found in a manuscript by R. Jacob Lorenbaum of Lissa and delivered on the first day of selihot and. The volume concludes with verse and a list of the names of sponsors.

Gabriel Suedfeld (1799–1872) was a Hebrew writer and the father of Max Nordau. Born in Krotoszyn, he studied at the Lissa Yeshivah and was ordained as a rabbi, but became attracted to the Haskalah. After studying at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, he was a tutor in the households of S.J.Rapoport in Prague, Rabbi M. Schreiber (Sofer) in Pressburg, and the Fischhof family in Buda. Suedfeld eventually settled in Pest, and earned a meager living teaching Hebrew and German. A master of the three classical languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, Suedfeld also knew German, French and Italian. He wrote philosophical and linguistic studies in Hebrew, as well as poetry, both original and translations, and miscellaneous prose in German. He was a contributor to the journal Bikkurei ha-Ittim. His Hebrew writings include Ahuzzat Mere'im (1825), and Rehovot ha-Be'ur (1850), a German translation of Ecclesiastes, with Hebrew commentary.
          
Paragraph 2    על ספר קהלת [עם הפנים] אשר הרחבהי לבאר על הראשונים... עם תרגום האשכנזי על אופן הבאור. ונלוה אליו ספרי לקוטי הפרחים. פסוקים הקשים לאוזן בקיצור הלשון, וגם מדרשים נפלאים הנוגעים אל הדקדוק הלשון... ועוד צגתי... הדרוש אשר דרש... הרב... מו"ה יעקב [לארבערבוים] נ"ע, אב"ד דק"ק ליסא... ביום א' דסליחות. ממני גבריאל בן כהר"ר עוזר זידפעלד מפעסטה, בן מוהר"ר שמחה נאמן זצללה"ה... בשנת אור חדש על ציון ת'א'י'ר'

דף נא,ב - נב,א: שיר תפארת מיוסד על עשר ספירות, אשר כתבתי אחר מיתת... מו"ה משה הסופר בר שמואל זצ"ל אב"ד דק"ק פרעשבורג. פותח: בר שמואל! גדול אתה לעשות למשארת, ושמנו קראנוך בתפארת.

          
Reference
Description		    BE Tav 789; EJ; CD-EPI 0305396
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Bohemia
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Other:    Haskalah
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica