Zichron Yerushalayim

AUCTION 28 | Tuesday, April 05th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.

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Lot 145
HAZAN, ELIJAH BECHOR

Zichron Yerushalayim

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew with French introduction by the editor Elijah Benamozegh. On last leaf, genealogical chart of the Hazan rabbinic dynasty pp. (4), 8,132. Browned. Extremely attractive vellum and marbled boards. 4to Friedberg, Z-337

Livorno: Elijah Benamozegh 1874

Est: $150 - $200
PRICE REALIZED $400
In 1872-74 the author was an emissary in North Africa on behalf of the Jerusalem community. There, he was consulted concerning halachic matters especially regarding issues of personal status, areas that were affected by changes in the wider civil society. Hazan wrote Zichron Yerushalyim as a defense of traditional Judaism from the encroachment of modernizing tendencies brought on by the Colonial French administration. Of particular note is the author's prescient views concerning pre-nuptial agreements, see pp. 80-87