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Auction 8 · Lot 367

Chamishah Chumshei Torah - Der Pentateuch, übersetzt und erläutert

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
$350

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author

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL

printer

J. Kauffmann

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1867-78

Description

FIRST EDITION. Five volumes

summary

“R. Hirsch’s magnum opus, his crowning literary achievement, was unquestionably his translation and commentary on the Torah, which includes within its pages all the major themes of his long and fruitful life...The Commentary quickly became the definitive commentary...for German Orthodoxy. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) pp.330-4
Foxed in places. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 4to
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