Alexander, L[evy]. Alexander’s Hebrew Ritual and Doctrinal Explanation of the Whole Ceremonial Law…of the Jewish Community.

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Alexander, L[evy]. Alexander’s Hebrew Ritual and Doctrinal Explanation of the Whole Ceremonial Law…of the Jewish Community.

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew. pp. 309. Lightly browned. Later boards. 4to Roth, Magna Bibliotheca p. 333, no. 25

London: By Author 1819

Est: $500 - $700

An introduction to Jewish ritual. Levy Alexander (son of Alexander Alexander, translator of the Hebrew liturgy into English) was embroiled at this time in a personal and quite public squabble with Haham Raphael Meldola and his Aschkenazi colleague, Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell.