RaMBa”M). Mishneh Torah [Rabbinic code]. Edited and translated into German by Leon Mandelstamm.

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RaMBa”M). Mishneh Torah [Rabbinic code]. Edited and translated into German by Leon Mandelstamm.

Nine volumes: Four volumes in Hebrew and four in German translation. Accompanied by another copy of Vol. I (lacking title but with an additional eight pages entitled "Kevod Malchuth"). Regarding variants of this St. Petersburg Mishneh Torah see JE, Vol. VIII, pp. 289-90. Ex-library, some wear. Variously bound, worn. 8vo Vinograd, St. Petersburg 6

St. Petersburg: Carl Krayya 1850-52

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $750

Prepared by the Haskalah Movement and issued under the auspices of the Czarist government, contains essays stressing the religious duty of the Jew to respect the ruling monarch. “A fascinating example of the use of Maimonides for Haskalah purposes, an instructive guide to the limits of Tsarist censorship, and an intellegent and subtle arguments for the civic and religious reform of the Jews.” See M. Stainislawski, The Tsarist Mishneh Torah: A Study in the Cultural Politics of the Russian Haskalah (1983) p.167. See also: J. Raisin, The Haskalah Movement in Russia (1913) pp. 186, 200; B. Naor, From a Kabbalists Diary, pp. 209-23; E. Katzman, Yeshurun, Vol. IV, pp. 648-82.