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Lot #    6996
Auction End Date    3/30/2004 12:44:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yad Moshe
Title (Hebrew)    יד משה
Author    [Morocco] R. Moshe b. Yitchok Edrehi
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Widow and Orphans of Joseph Proophs
Publication Date    1809
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [8], 40 [i.e. 39] ff., 236:192 mm., light browning. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather boards, rubbed.
          
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Detailed
Description		    Homiletics by a Moroccan scholar. Edrehi was born in Agadir, Morocco, but when the Jews were expelled from that city Moses, while still a boy, was taken with his parents to Mogador, and after 1784 to Rabat. He began to preach in public at the age of 14, and became an itinerant preacher in North Africa. In 1791 he reached London, where he studied for a time in the bet ha-midrash Ez Hayyim and was accustomed to preach every Sabbath. In 1792 he published his Torat Hayyim readings for Friday nights according to the custom of the Jews of Morocco. In 1802 he proceeded to Amsterdam, where he published his Yad Moshe (1809), consisting of sermons preached in various places; and Ma'aseh Nissim (1818), tales of the ten tribes, with a Yiddish translation. An English edition was published in London in 1834 under the title, Book of Miracles... With... an Account of Many Millions of Israelitical Children... Dwelling Beyond that River, later expanded as An Historical Account of the Ten Tribes Settled Beyond the River Sambatyon in the East (1836) which was prefaced by letters of commendation from Dutch, French, and English scholars and clergymen. Edrehi finally left for Erez Israel, traveling by way of France, Italy, Malta, and Smyrna and taking four years on the journey. While in Smyrna in 1841, his belongings and manuscripts—among them a grammar of the French and English language with a translation in Spanish—were destroyed by fire. In 1842 he published in Jerusalem the Azharot of Isaac b. Reuben al-Bargeloni. After his death his son Isaac published his History of the Capital of Asia and the Turks, together with an Account of the Domestic Manners of the Turks in Turkey, 3 vols. (1855).
          
Paragraph 2    דרושים ... במילי דאגדה ומוסר. אשר לקטתי יסדתי ודרשתי ... וחלקתיו לי"ד דרושים ... שבתות ומועדים חגים וזמנים ...
          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Amsterdam 2380; EJ
        
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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