Yehudah Leib Ben-Zev. Chochmath Yehoshua Ben Sira. Translated from the Greek into Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-German, with an original introduction and commentary.

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(HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL).

Yehudah Leib Ben-Zev. Chochmath Yehoshua Ben Sira. Translated from the Greek into Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-German, with an original introduction and commentary.

<<First edition>> of translation. <<THE SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH COPY,>> with his signature and stamp of his son Julius on the title-page, stamp with the initials “SRH” on first leaf. ff. (10), 125, (1). Browned, additional signature removed from front pastedown. Contemporary calf, worn, boards detached. 8vo. Vinograd, Breslau 21 (no copy in JNUL).

Breslau: Konigl. Preus. Stadt Buch Druckeren 1798

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) was the foremost Rabbinic leader in Germany. The existence of the Aprocryphal work of ethics “The Wisdom of Ben Sira” in Rabbiner Hirsch’s library is a testament to his broad reading and wide range of scholarly interests.