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Lot #    7572
Auction End Date    7/13/2004 12:26:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Code of Laws, Hambro Synagogue
Author    [Community]
City    London
Publisher    S. Magnus
Publication Date    1845
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Revised edition. xxvi, [1], 85 pp., 221:140 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Founded in London by Mordecai Hamburger in 1702, as a protest against the tyranny of Abraham of Hamburg, the parnas of the Great Synagogue. Its members met at Hamburger's house, in Magpye alley, Fenchurch street, the rabbi being Jochanan Holleschau. It was the first attempt at an independent synagogue, and the ecclesiastical authorities of both the Sephardim and Ashkenazim combined to obtain an injunction against a place of public Jewish worship in St. Mary Axe, so near to both Duke's Place and Bevis Marks. A veto was obtained from the corporation; but notwithstanding this the synagogue was erected in the garden attached to Hamburger's house, the foundation-stone being laid Siwan 3, 5485 (1725), by Wolf Präger, after whom the synagogue was sometimes called. Generally, however, it was spoken of as "the Hambro'," as it followed the ritual of Hamburg. Holleschau was succeeded by Meshullam Zalman, son of R. Jacob Emden, and he by Hirschel Levin, father of Dr. Herschell. The synagogue was pulled down in 1893 to make room for city improvements, and its place in the United Synagogue of London was taken by a new synagogue erected in Union street, Commercial road.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Customs:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    English, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica