Sepher Tehillim. With commentary and translation into German by S.R. Hirsch

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HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL

Sepher Tehillim. With commentary and translation into German by S.R. Hirsch

FIRST EDITION. Two title pages. Hebrew and German on facing page pp. ix, 381,(1), 367,(1). Modern boards. 8vo

Frankfurt a/Main: J. Kaufmann 1882

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $500

This extensive translation and commentary is one of Hirsch's most important accomplishments. "This work may be seen as a summary of a fruitful life of scholarship...Rabbi Hirsch felt a special affinity for the book of Psalms." See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) p.334-35