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Lot #    5728
Auction End Date    10/8/2003 11:58:56 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ha-Ro’eh u-Mevakker Sifrei Mehabberei Zemannenu
Title (Hebrew)    מחולת המחנים; הרואה ומבקר ספרי מחברי זמננו
Author    [Polemic]
City    Ofen; Pressburg
Publication Date    1839; 1859
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Two independent works bound together. Only editions. 167 pp.; [1], 80, [3] ff., 8 vo., 190:130 mm., usual light browning. Very good copies bound in contemporary half leather bosrds, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    Ha-Ro’eh u-Mevakker Sifrei Mehabberei Zemannenu bound with Meholat ha-Mahanayim by Jacob Bodek, A. M. Mohr, Nahman Isaac Fischmann, et. al.; R. Israel David ben Mordecai Margolies Schlesinger Jaffe respectively.
          
Detailed
Description		    The first work is the second issue of the critical literary journal, Ha-Ro’eh u-Mevakker Sifrei Mehabberei Zemannenu (Criticism of the works of Contemporary Authors), published by Jacob Bodek, with his brother-in-law, Abraham Mendel Mohr, and Nahman Isaac Fischmann. The text is comprised of four long letters written by Fischmann, Mohr, Jacob Mentsch, and the last unsigned. Ha-Ro’eh is highly critical of the works of S. J. Rapoport, S. D. Luzzatto, and I. S. Reggio, for the stated purpose of defending Jewish traditions. The journal aroused considerable opposition form contemporaries.

Jacob Bodek and his brother-in-law, A. M. Mohr, were maskilim in Lemberg and after Ha-Ro’eh published a periodical called Yerushalayim (1844–45) to which many Galician maskilim contributed. Bodek also published biblical commentaries and translations of poetry. Mohr too was a prolific writer.

The second work, Meholat ha-Mahanayim, by R. Israel David ben Mordecai Margolies Schlesinger Jaffe (c. 1802–1864), is a defense of Orthodoxy. It is the first attempt in writing to explain the Orthodox position against reformed innovations such as relocating the bimah and other synagogue customs. Written in a clear and lucid style it was an infulential work.

R. Jaffe, a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe (Levush) and a student of the Hatam Sofer, was rabbi in Senice-Szenc in Slovakia, and after 1832, rabbi and av bet din of the Bazin-Pezinok community in the Bratislava (Pressburg) district. He was a leqder in the fight against reform and is the author of responsa.
          
Paragraph 2    מבאר ... מנהגי בתי כנסיות החדשים והישנים בענין העמדת הבימה והחופה וקריאה לס"ת [לספר תורה](מלבוש או ניגון) וכדומיהן. על כל מנהג ומנהג ... לקטתי אמרים ... מפי סופרים ומן הספרים (לחזק מנהגי ישראל) ...מחוברים מן ... ישראל דוד בן ... מו"ה מרדכי מרגליות יפה ז"ל הנקרא דוד סערעד ... העומד על המשמרת בק"ק פעזינג ...

חוברת ב: נוסדה על ספרי ... ר' שי"ר [שלמה יהודה ראפאפורט] הכהן ועל דברי המשכיל שד"ל [שמואל דוד לוצאטו] מפאדובה מאת ארבעה מבקרים ... ר' נחמן יצחק הכהן פישמאן ... מנחם מענדיל מאהר ... יעקב בודק ... יעקב מענטש ... הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י ... יוסף בערגר נ"י. אפען, חוברת ב:[mit Koeniglichen ung. Universitatsschriften], חוברת ב: תקצ"ט. 167 עמ'. ר8.

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; JE; Vinograd, Ofen 61;

Vinograd, Pressburg 128
        
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