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Naphtali Hartwig Wessely's literarischer Nachlass |
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עוללות נפתלי ביאור על ספר בראשית |
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[First Ed. - Haskalah] Naphtali Herz Wessely |
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Hamburg |
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Wessely'schen Erben |
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1842 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Physical
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First edition. [8], 128 ff., 208:120 mm., crisp wide margins, usual light age staining, plate, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed. Book was not completed at press.
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Commentary to Genesis by Naphtali Herz Wessely (Hartwig; 1725–1805), important member of the German Haskalah. Wessely's ancestors had fled Poland during the Chmielnicki pogroms and settled in Wesel on the Rhine from where the family took its name. Born in Hamburg, Wessely spent his childhood in Copenhagen where his father was a purveyor to the king of Denmark. He received his religious education at the yeshiva of R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz, who influenced him greatly, and read literature and scientific works in a number of European languages, Associated with the Feitel Bank, Wessely's business affairs took him to Amsterdam and Berlin. In Berlin he met Moses Mendelssohn and contributed a commentary on Leviticus (Berlin, 1782) to the Biur.
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ביאור על ספר בראשית, חברו ... מהור"ר נפתלי הירץ וויזל נשמתו עדן. הובא לדפוס ע"י בן הרב המחבר ... שלמה וויזל ... (מחברת א).
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Waxman III pp. 107-19; EJ; CD-EPI 0130643 |
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