Gal’ed-The Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature. Edited by MORRIS J. RAPHALL

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

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(ANGLO-AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Gal’ed-The Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature. Edited by MORRIS J. RAPHALL

Together, three volumes. Volumes I-III. Numbers 1-78. (All published). Text in English with extensive use of Hebrew type. Volume I inscribed and signed by Raphall to Rev. de Sola Vol. I: pp. 420. * Vol. II: pp.416. * Vol. III: pp. 420, unopened. Trace foxed, ex-library. Uniform modern boards. 8vo

London: For the Proprietors by Simpkin and Marshall 1835-6

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

THE FIRST RABBINICAL PERIODICAL PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND. Morris J. Raphall was an active and prolific writer and orator both in his native England and later, in the United States. As well as editing Gal’ed, the first rabbinical periodical in England, he wrote the first English translation of parts of the Mishna with David Aaron de Sola. When he emigrated to the United States in 1849, he became rabbi of Congregation B’nei Jeshurun in New York. In the prelude to the Civil War years, he encountered particular controversy for his stand against Abolitionism