Gross, Henri. Gallia Judaica. Dictionnaire Geographique de la France d’après les Sources Rabbiniques. From the German by M. Bloch

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(FRENCH-JUDAICA).

printer

Léopold Cerf

Place

Paris

Publication

1897

Description

FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and French

references

Shunami 2252

summary

Rabbi and scholar, Gross (1835-1910) received a traditional rabbinic education from Judah Aszod in Hungary, before moving to Germany to study with Leopold Zunz. For a time he was private tutor in the home of Baron Guenzberg in Paris. Gross’s lasting contribution to Jewish scholarship is his Gallia Judaica, a geographic dictionary of France according to rabbinic sources

pp.x,766. Contemporary half-calf over scarlet marbled boards, rubbed. 4to

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