Lieberman, Eliezer (Ed.) Nogah HaTzedek - Or Nogah

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

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Lot 192

(REFORM JUDAISM)

Lieberman, Eliezer (Ed.) Nogah HaTzedek - Or Nogah

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one; second work in three parts pp. 28; (16), 24, 52. Slight browning. Contemporary half-calf, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Dessau 75 and 71 (mispaginated). Accompanied By: Another copy

Dessau: C. Schlieder 1818

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $300

The first Reform responsa. A defense of Reform synagogue practice, including liberal positions on 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 - erstwhile 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.