/ RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic code]. Edited and translated into German by Leon Mandelstamm.

MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES.

Carl Krayya

St. Petersburg

1850

Complete in five volumes (all published). Hebrew with German translation

Vinograd, St. Petersburg 6

Prepared by the Haskalah Movement and issued under the auspices of the Tsarist government. “A fascinating example of the use of Maimonides for Haskalah purposes, an instructive guide to the limits of Tsarist censorship, and... an intellegent and subtle arguments for the civic and religious reform of the Jews.” M. Stainislawski, The Tsarist Mishneh Torah: A Study in the Cultural Politics of the Russian Haskalah (1983) p.167. Among the approbations of Maskilim includes the name, most improbably, of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, author of Tzemach Tzedek, the Lubavitcher Rebbe of the time