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Lot #    23542
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 10:34:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Das Buch Hiob
Title (Hebrew)    ספר איוב
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Benjamin Szold
City    Baltimore
Publisher    Isaac Friedenwald at H. F. Siemers
Publication Date    1886
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. XXIV, 498, [2 illustrations] pp., 224:138 mm., usual light age staining, some foxing. A good copy bound in later cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    The work was also published with an English title page.
          
Detailed
Description		    Extensive commentary in to the Book of Job by R. Benjamin Szold (1829–1902), rabbi in Baltimore. He was born in Nemiskert, Hungary, where his family owned land. Although they were the only Jews in town, he received an excellent Jewish education from the rabbis in the area. At the age of 16, or 14 according to family tradition, he was granted the title morenu ("our teacher") by Rabbi Benjamin Wolf at the Pressburg Yeshivah. He went on to Vienna for further study, but participated in the Revolution of 1848, and was expelled for his activities. He then returned to Pressburg and from 1849 to 1855 tutored privately. He began to study at the University of Breslau and at the newly founded rabbinical seminary in that city, where he came under the influence of Zacharias Frankel, Heinrich Graetz, and Jacob Bernays, and decided to become a rabbi. In 1858, after applying unsuccessfully for a rabbinical post in Stockholm, he accepted an invitation from Congregation Oheb Shalom in Baltimore in the United States. Oheb Shalom was then on the verge of becoming Reform, but Szold led it to a Judaism which allowed for innovations in ritual practice, but not in basic tenets. He recognized and employed the educational potential of the regular Sabbath sermon. He introduced his own prayer book, Avodat Yisrael (1867), to replace the previously used Minhag Amerikah (1857) by I. M. Wise, and the traditional siddur. The Avodat Yisrael was widely adopted by congregations throughout the country. Under Szold's leadership Oheb Shalom became one of the foremost American congregations.

Szold's strong liberal and humanitarian convictions found expression in civic and Jewish communal affairs. He took part in founding charitable institutions and aiding the Russian refugees who streamed in during the 1880s. With his daughter Henrietta Szold, he organized study groups and a library for immigrants. As early as 1893 he publicly advocated Zionism and was an active Hebraist. He published scholarly articles and commentaries on the Bible.

Added t.p.: Das Buch Hiob, nebst einem... Commentar von Benjamin Szold...

          
Paragraph 2    מבואר מחדש על פי כללי הדקדוק וחוקי המליצה של שפת עבר, מאתי בנימין סאלד >מילדי שאלגאוו-נעמעשקורט בארץ הונגאריא<, רב ומורה לעדת "אוהב שלום" בעיר באלטימארע...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0308387; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica