Abraham Alexander Wolff. Agende for det mosaiske Troessamfunds Synagoge i Kjöbenhavn, til Brug ved Gudstjenesten og andre høitidelige Leiligheder.

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Lot 101
(DENMARK).

Abraham Alexander Wolff. Agende for det mosaiske Troessamfunds Synagoge i Kjöbenhavn, til Brug ved Gudstjenesten og andre høitidelige Leiligheder.

<<First edition.>> Danish text with occasional use of Hebrew. pp. 32, 46. Lightly foxed, title with inscriptions. Unbound. 8vo.

Copenhagen: Robertske Officin 1833

Est: $500 - $700
German-born Abraham Alexander Wolff (1801-91) was considered in his native Darmstadt a child prodigy. He studied Talmud under Rabbi Abraham Bing of Würzburg, doyen of German rabbis, and in 1821 received a Ph.D. from the University of Giessen. Wolff assumed the office of Chief Rabbi of Denmark in 1829. After the destruction of Copenhagen’s synagogue in 1795, the community splintered into several congregations. With Wolff ‘s arrival in Copenhagen, the new rabbi galvanized the community to erect a new edifice, which was dedicated on April 12, 1833.