(“Phinehas Hananiah Argosi de Silva”). Ha’Orev [polemic]

After a brief spell in Berlin associating with Moses Mendelssohn and the Berlin Haskalists, Baruch Jeiteles, the son of a prominent Prague physician and a student of Ezekiel Landau, returned home and was reconciled with both his father and teacher. He spent the rest his life struggling with the conflict and isolation of the enlightened intellectual in traditional Orthodox society, attempting to reconcile the two outlooks. In this pseudonymous pamphlet, Jeiteles responds to Berlin radicals who attacked him for his return to the Orthodoxy, criticizing their disrespectful attitude towards rabbinical scholars. The principle subject of the pamphlet is Jeiteles’ response to Samuel Landau’s objections to the establishment of rabbinical seminaries in Prague. See I. Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature, vol. VIII, The Berlin Haskalah p.103. Regarding bibliographical issue-points see R. Marolioth, Areshet, vol. I (1959), p. 419, no. 1290