(Foremost Rabbinic leader in Germany, 1808-1888)

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 242

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.

(Foremost Rabbinic leader in Germany, 1808-1888)

Autograph Letter Signed in German (with a few Hebrew words interspersed). Signed “Landrabbiner Hirsch”

Oldenburg: 30th April 1841

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Written during the final days of R. Hirsch’s stay in Oldenburg before his move to Emden. See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 508-9 In this letter, R. Hirsch makes mention of a newly published Hebrew-German dictionary, Erech Milim (Frankfurt a/Main, 1840) authored by Asher Johlson