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Bidding Information
Lot #    19012
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 11:18:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Jewish School & Family Bible
Title (Hebrew)    עדות ה'
Author    [Binding] Dr. A[braham] Benisch, trans.
City    London
Publication Date    1851
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   5 volumes, 202:127 mm., gild edges, light age staining, family register on endpapers of v. 1. A very good set bound in contemporary red morocco, ruled in gild, "Adelaide Gutmann" embossed on all front panels.
          
Detailed
Description
   Pentateuch with English translation on facing page by Dr. Abraham Benisch (1811-1878). He was born in Bohemia and studied medicine at Vienna but abandoned his studies and moved to England in 1841. He was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, 1854-69 and 1875-8 and zealously promoted the cause of his fellow Jews. He published several works on Hebrew literature.

Dr. Benisch had established a periodical called the Hebrew Observer, which was "subsequently embodied with the third series of the Jewish Chronicle. He proposed rendering the new organ self-supporting, and at the same time he did not desire to espouse the opinions of any particular class or section of the community. He advocated a broad Judaism, moderate progress with the age, the spread of education, the study of Hebrew literature and conciliatory views on religious questions. He aimed at rendering the Hebrew Observer the medium for intercommunication between the Jews of the different parts of the British Empire and, when practicable, the connecting link between them and their continental brethren. The services performed by this gentleman to Jewish journalism in particular and to the advancement of Jewish interests in general..."needed no further description for the readers of 1875.

          
Paragraph 2    עברית ואנגלית עמ' מול עמ'.
          
Reference
Description
   Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History by James Piccioto (London, 1875); CD-EPI 0305403 (variant edition)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Bindings:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica