Chamishah Chumshei Torah - Der Pentateuch, übersetzt und erläutert

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 367

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL

Chamishah Chumshei Torah - Der Pentateuch, übersetzt und erläutert

FIRST EDITION. Five volumes Foxed in places. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 4to

Frankfurt a/Main: J. Kauffmann 1867-78

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

“R. Hirsch’s magnum opus, his crowning literary achievement, was unquestionably his translation and commentary on the Torah, which includes within its pages all the major themes of his long and fruitful life...The Commentary quickly became the definitive commentary...for German Orthodoxy. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) pp.330-4