Mishneh Torah [Rabbinic code]. Edited and translated into German by Leon Mandelstamm.

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/ RaMBa”M).

Mishneh Torah [Rabbinic code]. Edited and translated into German by Leon Mandelstamm.

Complete in five volumes (all published). Hebrew with German translation. Lightly browned, library stamps. Later boards, broken. 8vo Vinograd, St. Petersburg 6

St. Petersburg: Carl Krayya 1850

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $550
Prepared by the Haskalah Movement and issued under the auspices of the Tsarist government. “A fascinating example of the use of Maimonides for Haskalah purposes, an instructive guide to the limits of Tsarist censorship, and... an intellegent and subtle arguments for the civic and religious reform of the Jews.” M. Stainislawski, The Tsarist Mishneh Torah: A Study in the Cultural Politics of the Russian Haskalah (1983) p.167. Among the approbations of Maskilim includes the name, most surprisingly of R. Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Lubavitcher Rebbe of the time