(“BEN UZZIEL”). Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum [“Ninteen Letters about Judaism’]. Text in German

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL

Johann Friedrich Hammerich

Altona

1836

FIRST EDITION. The Warner Prins Copy

RABBI SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH’S ELEGANT DEFENCE OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM. Written pseudonomously by Hirsch aged 27, The Ninteen Letters quickly became the definitive work in Germany setting out the essence of Judaism in a rational and skeptical era. Written in the form of an exchange of letters between two intelligent young men, Benjamin, an idealistic young Jew impressed by Society’s rapid progress in the arts and sciences, and his boyhood friend Naphtali, a young Rabbi. See E. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996) pp.59-67