Or Yisrael [responsa].

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Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Lot 217
LIPSCHUETZ, YISRAEL BEN ELIEZER.

Or Yisrael [responsa].

<<FIRST EDITION, The Uncensored issue.>> Formerly in the library of the Valmadonna Trust. ff. 120 (i.e. 118). Browned. Modern vellum. 4to. Vinograd, Cleves 1.

Cleves: The Widow Sizmann 1770

Est: $500 - $700
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Following the polemic of Aaron Shimon of Copenhagen’s Or HaYashar published in 1769, the present work deals primarily with the author’s position regarding the Cleves Get Controversy, a causes-célèbres that came to involve most of the great rabbinic adjudicators of the day. The work includes opinions by Rabbis Jacob Emden and Ezekiel Landau. This copy with pp. 31-2 present, usually removed due to the severity of language against the Rabbinate of Frankfurt a/Main. See M. Carmilly-Weinberger, Censorship and Freeedom of Expression, pp. 168-70.