RINTEL, MEIR. Minchath Kena’oth [response to Solomon Bennett’s Tana Bikurim]

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RINTEL, MEIR. Minchath Kena’oth [response to Solomon Bennett’s Tana Bikurim]

First Edition. 2 page introduction in English pp. (2), 26. Lightly browned and dampstained in places. Contemporary quarter calf morocco boards. 8vo Vinograd, London 212; Roth, London 108; Mehlman 1721

London: Yechiel Hanau 1817

Est: $500 - $700

“One of the most vigorous and striking personalities of London Jewry,” Solomon Bennett’s literary attack in Tana Bikurim, is in fact an excuse to impugn the piety of the Chief Rabbi, Solomon Hirschell. The present tract Minchath Kena’oth, is a defense of the honor of Chief Rabbi Hirschell. Barnett suggests the work was indeed composed by Solomon Hirschell himself. See A. Barnett, Solomon Bennett (1761-1838) Artist, Hebraist and Controversialist, in: JHSET, vol. XVII (1953) pp. 91-111