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Lot #
18564
Auction End Date
8/21/2007 10:18:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Kuntres Shimru Mishpat
Title (Hebrew)
שמרו משפט
Author
[Polemic - Zionism] R. Akiva Joseph Schlesinger
City
Jerusalem
Publisher
Brothers Lipshitz
Publication Date
1900
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. [4], 20 pp., 84 ff., 188:121 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
Detailed
Description
Kuntres Shimru Mishpat by R. Akiva Joseph Schlesinger is a multipart work, including tinyana: im likutim rayonim u-pizmonim. The first part discusses the settlement of Erez Israel, while rayonim deals with a wide variety of subjects. R. Akiva Joseph Schlesinger, (1837–1922), one of the first visionaries of modern Zionism. Born in Pressburg, R. Schlesinger was a graduate of Hungarian yeshivot and a student of Kabbalah. He was one of the spokesmen of the extreme religious elements of the Hatam Sofer school of thought, which advocated complete separation from the "enlightened" and "neologic" elements. In his book Lev Ivri ("Hebrew Heart," 1865), he sharply attacked the "meshannim" and "mithaddeshim" ("innovators" and "reformers"). In 1870 R. Schlesinger went to Erez Israel out of a conviction that the sole hope for religious Jewry lay in the establishment of a religious Jewish community in the Land of Israel. In 1873 he published the book Hevrat Mahzirei Atarah le-Yoshnah or Kolel ha-Ivrim ("The Society for the Restoration of Things to Their Former Glory" or "The Community of Hebraists"), in which he expounded his plan for the establishment of a world-wide association for the consolidation of religious Jewry. This association would set up a network of schools to educate the young generation in a religious spirit; its center would be in Jerusalem and its aim would be the establishment of a Jewish community living off the fruits of its own labor and in the spirit of the Torah. In his book R. Schlesinger expressed ideas similar to those which were later adapted by the Zionist movement (collection of contributions and tithes for the upbuilding of the country, renaissance of the Hebrew language, agricultural settlement, organization of self-defense, abolition of the barriers between communities and kolelim and their amalgamation into one - Kolel ha-Ivrim). R. Schlesinger was the leader of a group of Jerusalemites who tried to change the halukkah system and divert the funds to agricultural settlement. The halukkah trustees, who feared R. Schlesinger's ideas as a threat to their hegemony, boycotted and persecuted him, and he reponded with harsh polemic. In 1878 R. Schlesinger was one of the founders of Petah Tikvah and, with the establishment of the new settlement, he called on religious Jewry to establish their own settlement movement to encompass truly religious Jews, without "heretical and outside elements."
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שמרו משפט תנינא עם לקוטים רעינים [!] ופזמונים, לחזק דברי חברא המעל"ה >ר"ת מחזירי עטרה ליישנה [!] הקדושה< עם קהל העברים, הנדפס בשנת תר גל [חברא מחזירי עטרה ליושנה עם כולל העברים, ירושלם תרל"ג] ... בשולי השער שמו של המחבר: Adresse: A. J. Schlessinger, Jerusalem. כ דף: "שמרו משפט <תנינא>". כעין המשך לספרו שמרו משפט, ירושלם תר"ס. דף א-לג: "רעינים". אוסף ביאורים קצרים ורעיונות בענייני אגדה, "אינם מחברים ומסודרים ... אין מוקדם ואין מאוחר". דף לד-סט,א: "פזמונים". שירים מאת שלזינגר (בלתי מנוקדים). דף סט,ב-פד: "שיחות". דרשות בעניני השעה.
Reference
Description
BE shin 1855; CD-EPI 0325100; EJ
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Listing Classification
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19th Century:
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Zionism
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
