Friedman, Aaron Zebi. Tub Taam or a Vindication of the Jewish Mode of Slaughtering Animals for Food Called Shechitah. Translated from the Hebrew by Laemlein Buttenwieser.
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 31
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Friedman, Aaron Zebi. Tub Taam or a Vindication of the Jewish Mode of Slaughtering Animals for Food Called Shechitah. Translated from the Hebrew by Laemlein Buttenwieser.
New York: Philip Cowen for Bloch 1904
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $450
Among those who supported the Jewish position on Shechitah in the struggle against the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was President Ulysses S. Grant. According to Joakim Isaacs, Grant “was moved [by this English translation]…to eat only ritually slaughtered meat in the latter part of his life.” See J. Isaacs, “Candidate Grant and the Jews,” American Jewish Archives 17. 1 (1965) p. 15, n. 31; I. H. Sharfman, The First Rabbi (1988) pp. 591-92.