Beth Yoseph Chadash

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

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 507

SCHLESINGER, AKIVA JOSEPH.

Beth Yoseph Chadash

First edition ff. (14 of 18), 124. Browned, scattered foxing on first few leaves. Bpards, worn. Sm. folio Halevi, 231

Jerusalem: 1875

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $700

Advocating the energetic migration of Jews from Europe to Eretz Israel to avoid assimilation as a result of the Enlightenment. The author’s radical ideas (encouraging men to leave their wives rather than reside in Europe), as well as his criticism of existing communal structures, resulted in the book placed under a ban. See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp.156-7; L. Jung, Men of the Spirit (1964) pp.85-105