Ritualgesetze der Juden

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Lot 224

(MENDELSSOHN, MOSES)

Ritualgesetze der Juden

FIRST EDITION. With bookplate of Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874-1936), great-great-grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, see EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 1324-6 pp. (12), 22, 267, (1 blank), (1), (1 blank). Foxed. Contemporary calf, rubbed. 8vo Freimann 364; Meyer, Mendelssohn Bibliographie (1965), no. 237

Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss 1778

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $650

Written under the supervision of Chief Rabbi Hirschel Lewin of Berlin (previously Rabbi of the Great and Hambo Synagogues in London, 1758-70) this is an account of Jewish commercial and matrimonial law as relating to property rights. The study was requested by the Prussian Government as a guide to judges when arbitrating such cases between Jews. “Mendelssohn’s role in [the book’s] production was tantamount to that of author” see A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (1973) p. 470