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Lot #
19541
Auction End Date
1/8/2008 10:47:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
The Jewish Sabbath
Author
[First Ed.] R. Samson Raphael Hirsch
City
Newport
Publisher
Mullock and sons
Publication Date
1911
Collection Information
Independent Item
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Description Information
Physical
Description
First edition of English translation. 52 pp., plus wrappers, 214:136 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
Detailed
Description
R. Samson b. Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888) was the leader and foremost exponent of Orthodoxy in Germany in the 19th century. Born in Hamburg, Hirsch studied Talmud there with his grandfather R. Mendel Frankfurter. His education was also influenced by rabbis Jacob Ettlinger and Isaac Bernays, and by his father, R. Raphael (who had changed his surname from Frankfurter to Hirsch). R. Hirsch's importance as a religious spiritual leader, his wide influence as a preacher and teacher, organizer and writer, made him a dedicated champion of Orthodoxy in its controversy with the Reform-liberal Judaism. While advocating strict adherence to halakhah, R. Hirsch tried to find a solution to the political and cultural challenges presented in modern life to Judaism. He considered his view of Judaism not as a system of philosophical speculation but as an explication of the Sinaitic revelation. Despite widespread opposition to his ideas from many circles in German Jewry his personal qualities won their respect and admiration.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
England:
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Subject
Halacha:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
English
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
