(LITURGY).

AUCTION 38 |
Thursday, November 29th,
2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 189
MAIMONIDES, MOSES.
(LITURGY).
Prague: Franz Sommer 1811
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
A native of Podolia, Isaac Halevi Satanow (1733-1805) is considered one of the founding fathers of the Berlin Haskalah (Enlightenment) Movement, together with Moses Mendelssohn and Naphtali Herz (Hartwig) Wessely. According to Shmuel Feiner, "Satanow's most important contribution to the maskilic library was to reprint books of Jewish thought from the medieval and Renaissance periods. He deemed Maimonides' logic as interpreted by Mendelssohn, important in shaping philosophical thought." S. Feiner, The Jewish Enlightenment (2002), p. 325