Eliezer Tzvi Zweifel. Shalom al Yisrael [“Peace to Israel” a defense of the Chassidic movement]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Eliezer Tzvi Zweifel. Shalom al Yisrael [“Peace to Israel” a defense of the Chassidic movement]

<<First Edition>> . Two parts bound in one volume. pp. 107, 128. Previous owners’ marks, few stains. Contemporary calf backed marbled boards, rubbed. 8vo.

Zhitomir: Shadov 1868-69

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $450

An uncommon defense of the Chassidic Movement by a Maskil. Roundly criticized by the author’s intellectual peers, the work nonetheless sparked a re-evaluation of Chassidism by the Haskallah Movement from both a romanticized and historical perspective. See Gloria Wiederkehr-Pollack, Eliezer Zweifel and the Intellectual Defense of Hasidism (1995).