Ya'aneh Ba’Esh [responsum forbidding cremation of the dead]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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Lot 61

Benamozegh, Elijah

Ya'aneh Ba’Esh [responsum forbidding cremation of the dead]

Second edition. Title in typographic border. Hebrew with smattering of Italian. pp. (2), 27. Browned and brittle. Original colored wrappers bound into later boards. 8vo Friedberg, Y-817

Livorno: Elijah Benamozegh and Sons 1906

Est: $120 - $180

PRICE REALIZED $100

Elijah Benamozegh (1822-1900), Rabbi of Livorno was an interesting mix of the old and the new. In this responsum, besides marshalling the traditional sources such as Talmud and Maimonides's Code, the author has opportunity to discuss the contemporary scientific theories concerning matter, planetary satellites and the Ether. See EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 462-3.