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Lot #    18759
Auction End Date    8/21/2007 11:55:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Jessode haddat weikere haemuna
Title (Hebrew)    יסדי הדת ועקרי האמונה
Author    [Only Ed.] Marcus Friedenthal
City    Breslau
Publisher    Leopold Freund
Publication Date    1839-46
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. Protrait, [2], 7, [1]; [1], 126, [2]; XXX, [2], 113; 17-23; 151, [1]; [2], XIV, 93, III; [1], VIII, 71; 48; [1], II, 148; X, 206; [1], 38 pp., 181:113 mm., light age staining, nice margins, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary marbled paper over boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Collection of works by Marcus Baer Friedenthal, German banker and scholar; born in 1779; died at Breslau Dec. 3, 1859. Although one of the leading bankers at Breslau, he devoted much time to study and to communal affairs. His special interest lay in the field of religious philosophy and dogma, which he treated rather in an apologetic than in a purely scientific manner. His works nevertheless betrayed great sagacity, and had the merit, coming as they did from a conservative, of opening to the Talmudists the field of modern critical studies. Friedenthal wrote; "'Ikkare Emunah," on the dogmas of Jewish religion, proving that Mosaism is in accordance with the aims of humanity (Breslau, 3 vols., 1816-1818); "Yesod ha-Dat," a characterization of Jewish law (ib. 7 vols., 1821-23); "Mishpat ha-Ahizah we-Mishpat ha-Zekiyyah," on the law of property, a summary of the preceding work (ib. 1838); "Mikhtav le-Hakme Yisrael," an open letter to Jewish scholars concerning Jewish dogmas (ib. 1825); "Ma'amar Mordekai," a defense of the institutions of the great synagogue at Breslau, with notes on the use and form of the prayers (ib. 1834); "Ha-Hokmah, ha-Tebunah, weha-Dat," on intelligence, comprehension, and religion, in 4 parts (ib. 1843-46). Several of these works were translated into German by R. J. Fürstenthal and by Wilhelm Freund. Friedenthal was also the author of many pamphlets written in German, dealing with the communal affairs of Breslau.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
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Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica