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Lot #    19520
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 10:37:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Das Schachten
Author    [Only Ed. - Shehitah] Dr. J. Unna
City    Berlin
Publisher    der Reichszentrale für Schächtan
Publication Date    1931
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 31 pp., 223:145 mm., light age staining. A good copy bound in the original title wrappers.
          
Paragraph 1    Full title: Das Schächten vom Standpunkt der Religion und des Tierschutzes : Eine gemeinverständliche Darstellung .

A work on ritual slaughter and animal welfare in Judaism by Dr. Isak Unna (1872-1948).
          
Detailed
Description		    Isak Unna was born in 1872. In 1889 he began his study of philology at the University Wurzburg and continued at the University of Berlin, where he attained his doctorate in 1895. At the same time he studied at the orthodox Rabbbinical Seminary in Berlin and in1896 he received a Ranbbinical diploma. After a short time as an assistant Rabbi in Frankfurt a.M., he was appointed as the Rabbi of the Klaus synagogue in Mannheim in 1898.

He emigrated to Palestine in 1935 with his wife and children.There he continued his scientific work and lived to experience the beginning of the State, a few days before his death.

He is the author of many other books, including Das deutsche Judentum (Berlin, 1919), Rabi Mosheh ben Nahman, Rabenu Eliyahu ha-gaon mi-Vilnah u-tekufato (Jerusalem, 1946) and many others.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
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Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica