(“BEN UZZIEL”). Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum [“Ninteen Letters about Judaism’]. Text in German

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

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HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL

(“BEN UZZIEL”). Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum [“Ninteen Letters about Judaism’]. Text in German

FIRST EDITION. The Warner Prins Copy pp. viii,111,(3). Foxed, taped repairs to title and final leaf. Recent vellum-backed cloth. 8vo

Altona: Johann Friedrich Hammerich 1836

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $650

RABBI SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH’S ELEGANT DEFENCE OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM. Written pseudonomously by Hirsch aged 27, The Ninteen Letters quickly became the definitive work in Germany setting out the essence of Judaism in a rational and skeptical era. Written in the form of an exchange of letters between two intelligent young men, Benjamin, an idealistic young Jew impressed by Society’s rapid progress in the arts and sciences, and his boyhood friend Naphtali, a young Rabbi. See E. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996) pp.59-67