Toldoth Even ReSHe”F [biography of Karaite scholar Abraham ben Samuel Firkovich]

A detailed account of the nefarious activities of Firkovich, including the forcible confiscation of manuscripts from the Jews of Caucasia, as well as infamous forgeries of writings and tombstones. See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 1305-6. Raphael Kircheim (1804-1889) of Frankfurt a/Main was a contentious and pugnacious character, at first a member of Samson Raphael Hirsch's Orthodox congregation and later a partisan of Reform Rabbi Abraham Geiger. Over a long career, he published several important medieval and contemporary works, and left behind a valuable collection of Hebraica and Judaica. See JE, Vol. VII, p. 508