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Bidding Information
Lot #    18284
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 12:22:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    U-vu-hartu be-Hayyim
Title (Hebrew)    ובחרת בחיים
Author    [Polemic] Henri Rosenberg
City    Antwerp
Publication Date    1988
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 139, [2]; 35, [2] pp., 295:207 mm., crisp copy bound as issued. Limited edition.
          
Detailed
Description		    Blistering attack on the dayyanim (judges) in Antwerp for their misrepresentation of Jewish law in a divorce case. Mr. Rosenberg is a practicing lawyer, Rabbinical Barrister and Professor of Law at Radboud Catholic University in Nijmegen (Holland) and at the Faculty of Comparative Religions in Wilrijk-Antwerp. Rosenberg, a brilliant Talmudic scholar, decries the corruption in this court and proves the dishonesty of the judges utilizing numerous sources across the scope of rabbinic literature.
          
Reference
Description		    http://antwerpforum.blogspot.com/
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Belgium
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Flemish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica