Cheker Halachah

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 99

EHRENTREU, CHANOCH

Cheker Halachah

FIRST EDITION pp. 21. Lightly browned, contemporary boards. 8vo

Munich: J. Hirschinger 1904

Est: $100 - $150

PRICE REALIZED $150

A polemic against Dr. Lerner's work Chayei Olam on exhuming remains in order to rebury them elsewhere and the prohibition of burying cemated bodies in a Jewish cemetary. The author, Rabbi C. Ehrentreu ((1854-1927)was Rabbi of Munich for nearly 50 years and authored a number of scholarly works. His family later emigrated to England