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Lot #    17908
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:25:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Post-Biblical history of the Jews, Vol. II
Author    [First Ed.] Morris J. Raphall
City    Philadelphia
Publisher    Moss & Brother
Publication Date    1855
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Cloth, 8vo. 486 pages. Embossed boards; gilt titles. First edition. Ex-library. Bit of foxing. Very good condition. A very nice copy.
          
Paragraph 1    Title: Post-Biblical history of the Jews : from the close of the Old Testament, about the year 420 B.C.E., till the destruction of the second temple in the year 70 C.E. / by Morris J. Raphall ...
          
Detailed
Description		    Vol. II (of two) only. Raphall (1798-1868) was born in Stockholm and settled in England in 1825, quickly becoming prominent in British Jewry as one of its chief exponents tothe Christian world and as a fighter for the political rights of Jews and against defamations of Judaism. He published the first Jewish periodical in England and co-produced the first translation of parts of the Mishna into English. In 1849 he moved to the US, and in 1860 delivered the first invocation by a rabbi before the US House of Representatives. Raphall is most known, however, for his delivery, less than a year later at the height of the secession crisis in January of 1861, of what became "the most highly publicized rabbinical statement on the 'Bible and Slavery'" in which he placed "Judaism squarely in opposition to abolitionism, [and] denied that any statement in the Bible could be interpreted to prohibit slavery, and, insisted that, on the contrary, biblical law granted the right to own slaves." This played well with Jewish Southerners. He eventually settled in New York, where he led the B'nai Jeshurun congregation.
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman 1409; JE; EJ
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
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America-South America:    Checked
  
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History:    Checked
  
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Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica