Lieberman, Eliezer (Editor). Nogah ha-Tzedek - Or Nogah

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

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Lot 210

(REFORM JUDAISM)

Lieberman, Eliezer (Editor). Nogah ha-Tzedek - Or Nogah

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one; second work in three parts pp. 28; (16), 24, 52. Wormed although no appreciable loss of text, last two leaves browned. Recent boards. 4to Vinograd, Dessau 75 and 71 (mispaginated)

Dessau: C. Schlieder 1818

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $450

The first Reform responsa. A defence of Reform synagogue practice, including liberal positions toward organ accompaniment and prayer in the vernacular. Publication follows outrage among Orthodox Jewry upon the opening of Israel Jacobsohn’s Hamburg Temple in 1818, the first established Reform synagogue. Among the contributors to this volume are Aaron Chorin of Arad, Hungary - erstwile student of R. Ezekiel Landau (“Noda bi-Yehudah”); and Moses Kunitz of Ofen, author of a scholarly work in defense of the authenticity of the Zohar, “Ben Yochai” (1815), and Dayan in Budapest. See JE, Vol. VII, p. 583