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Bidding Information
Lot #    18697
Auction End Date    8/21/2007 11:30:32 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Announcment for Ha- Mazref
Title (Hebrew)    המצרף ... וזה יצא ראשונה...
Author    [Unrecorded - Reform] R. Moses Kunitz (Kunitzer)
City    Budapest [Vienna?]
Publication Date    1818
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1] f., 200:161 mm., margins trimmed, usual age staining. Not listed in biographies. Unrecorded and no copy in major collections. May very well be the only known copy.
          
Detailed
Description		    Announcment for Ha- Mazref with conditions of sale and prices by the Author. Part one of Ha- Mazref was printed in Venice in 1820, the second part in Prague in 1857. R. Moses ben Menahem Kunitz (Kunitzer) was rabbi in Ofen and dayyan in Budapest. He was born at Alt-Ofen; died Feb. 2, 1837. A descendant of the Maharal, R. Kunitz was one of the pioneers of enlightenment in Hungary. His works include: Bet Rabbi (Vienna, 1805), i.e., a biography of Judah ha-Nasi, part of which was included in Schmid's Mishnah edition in 1815; and Ben Yohai, a defense of the genuineness of the Zohar (ib. 1815). His responsum in Nogah ha-Zedek (Dessau, 1818), in which he permits the introduction of the organ into the synagogue, created a great stir. A part of his manuscript is to be found in the library of the rabbinical seminary at Budapest.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary or Austria
  
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History:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica