(Mandelstam, Aryeh Leib [Leon]).

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Lot 139

(Mandelstam, Aryeh Leib [Leon]).

Shnei Perakim: I. Al devar…le-ehov u-le-chabed eth adoneinu ha-Keisar. II. Al devar…kevod ha-amim…bi-zemaneinu / Zwei Ubhandlungen: I. ueber…dem Kaiser…II. ueber…der Völker unserer Zeit [Two Essays: I. To Love and Honor the Tsar; II. The Honor of the Nations of Our Time] pp. (2), 86, (1), 129, (2). Titles stamped, repaired. Recent boards. 8vo Vinograd, Petersburg 9

St. Petersburg: Karol Krei / Imperial Academy of Science 1852

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Successor to Max Lilienthal in the Tsarist government's Ministry of Education, Leon Mandelstamm (1819-89) attempted to enforce Haskalah or secular education upon Russian Jewry. The present work contains the Kevod ha-Melech, which stresses the Jew’s religious duty to respect kings and temporal rulers. See J. Raisin, The Haskalah Movement in Russia (1913), pp. 186, 200; E. Katzman, Yeshurun Vol. V; B. Naor, From A Kabbalist’s Diary (2005), pp. ; JE, Vol. VIII, pp. 289-90; EJ, Vol. XI, col. 868