(“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 prominant Prague physician and a student of R. Ezekiel Landau, returned home and was reconciled with both his father and teacher. He spend the rest his life struggling with the conflict and isolation of the enlightened intellectual living in traditional Orthodox society and attempting to reconcile both outlooks. In his pseudonominous pamphlet Ha’Orev, Jeiteles responds to his former allies the Berlin radicals (“Me’assphim”), who attacked him for his return to the Orthordox fold, criticizing their disresrespectful attitide toward rabbinical scholars. The main subject of the pamphlet deals with Jeiteles’ response to Samuel ben Ezeikiel Landau’s objections to the establishment of rabbinical seminaries in Prague. See: EJ IX cols 1330-1; I. Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature, vol. IIX, The Berlin Haskalah p.103. On bibliographical variances, see R. Marolioth, Areshet, vol. I (1959), p. 419, no. 1290