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Lot #    19040
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 11:32:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ursprung und Entwickelung des Phylacterien
Title (Hebrew)    תפלה למשה
Author    [Only Ed.] Michael Levi Rodkinson
City    Pressburg (Bratislava)
Publisher    Lowy & Alkalay
Publication Date    1883
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. xx, 152 pp., 228:148 mm., usual light age staining, nice margins. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers, torn.
          
Detailed
Description		    Tract on the history of tefillin and it sources by Michael Levi Rodkinson. Tefillah Le-Moshe (Prayers of Moses) attacks traditional beliefs concerning Passover and tefillin. The book begins with a half-title page followed by German and Hebrew title pages. The Hebrew title page describes it as tracing the history of tefillin from its inception by the Sanhedrin in Yavneh in 800-3790 from the creation, to the time of R. Moses of Coucy (4996 = 1335) who was responsible for its spreading throughout Israel. It describes Rodkinson as editor of ha-Kol, Kol le-Am, and ha-Meassaf. The verso of the title page describes the contents, followed by a dedication to R. Solomon ben Israel Feingberg, which is repeated on the verso in German. There are prefatory remarks from Rodkinson, letters to him from Prof. Dr. M. Lazarus, Drt. S. Rubin, and others, a detailed table of contents, errata, and then the text, set in a single column in square letters. Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845-1904) was a colorful individual, regarded as a thorough scoundrel by many. He was hated, and despised by individuals such as Ephraim Deinard and R. Joseph Kohen-Zedek (1827-1903), who attacked him in writing, and embraced by others, such as Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, (1819-1900) President of Hebrew Union College, and, from 1889 to his death, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

Rodkinson was the scion of a distinguished Hasidic family who became a radical proponent of haskalah at an early age. He was a prolific writer. He is best remembered for his New Talmud, an early and poor translation of the Babylonian Talmud into English. He collected, wrote, published, and perhaps fabricated, Hasidic tales, as noted above, and was, as the editor of Hebrew journals, among the pioneers of the Hebrew press, and the author of numerous monographs.
          
Paragraph 2    <מקוצי>. או תולדות התפילין וקורותיהן מיום נוסדו ע"י הסנהדרין דיבנה... עד ימות רבינו משה מקוצי... מאת מיכאל לוי ראדקינסזאהן...

Added t.p.: Ursprung und Entwickelung des Phylacterien - Ritus beiden Iuden. Von M. L. Rodkinssohn... עמ' [IX]-XIV: מכתבים למחבר, מאת: משה לאצארוס מברלין, בגרמנית; שלמה ראבין מוויען; ר' ישראל מיכל ראבינאוויטץ מפאריז; ור' ידידיה קליין הרב מעלבינג, בגרמנית. עמ' XVII-XV: מפסק דינו של הרב... ריב"א [יצחק אייזיק בן אברהם] דר. קאמינער . במקום הקדמה ... [מתוך] הקול, שנה רביעית.
          
Reference
Description		    BE tov 1668; CD-EPI 0166760
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
Other:    Haskala
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica