Hebrew and French). Le Pentateuque ou Les Cinq Livres de Moise. Including Haphtaroth. Hebrew and French on facing pages. Translated and with commentary in French by Lazare Wogue.

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Lot 68
(BIBLE

Hebrew and French). Le Pentateuque ou Les Cinq Livres de Moise. Including Haphtaroth. Hebrew and French on facing pages. Translated and with commentary in French by Lazare Wogue.

<<First edition.>> Five volumes. Each volume with frontispiece Biblical illustration. pp. LVI, 537; 568, 554, 618, 596. Uniform half-vellum. 8vo.

Paris: E. Durlacher 1860-69

Est: $400 - $600
Close colleague of Rabbi Zadoc Kahn, Grand Rabbi (Eleazar) Lazare Wogue (1817-97) taught for many decades at the Seminaire Israelite de Paris. This set includes approbations of the Chief Rabbi of the Central Consistoire and Chief Rabbis of various French Jewish communities, including: Strasbourg, Marseille, Paris, Colmar, Metz, Lyon and that of Algiers.