(CHASSIDISM)

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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Levin-Epstein

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1910-1913

Description

Teitelbaum, Mordechai. Ha-Rav mi-Ladi u-miflegeth Chabad. * Appended: Bornstein, Chaim Yechiel. Simath ayin al-devar yedi’ath ha-Rav Rabbi Shneur Zalman... [“An Examination of the Knowledge of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi in Engineering, Astronomy and Natural-science.”]

references

Friedberg R-130

summary

Teitelbaum’s work was the first of its kind: a serious scholarly appraisal, by a non-Chassid, of the founder and doctrines of Chabad Chassidism. The presentation is vastly different from that, Heilman’s Beith Rabbi, which was written by a devout chassid and whose style is more like a hagiography

pp. (6), 182, 242 (pp. 149-150 misbound between pp. 154-155); 46. Stained. Original boards, lacks spine. 4to

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