Auction 35 · Lot 258

(RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF PADUA). Shai La-Morim [Festschrift in honor of the ordination of the first graduating class]. Edited by Eugenia Gentiluomo. Padua, 1834

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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author

(ITALY)

Place

Padua

Publication

1827-1847

Description

WITH: Manuscript material by various Italian Rabbis and dignitaries, e.g, Jacob Cazis of Mantua, Samuel Ghirondi of Padua, Claudio Cazis, Abraham Reggio, and Marco Mortara of Mantua. With comments pertaining to the Seminary: graduates, examinations, apprenticeships, consecration services, etc

summary

THE FIRST FESTSCHRIFT OF A JEWISH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION An important record of the first modern Rabbinical school and its’ four-year program of study. Makes mention in particular of four graduates all of whom had a significant influence on Italian Jewry: Dr. Israel Gedalia Cazis (1794-1841), Rabbi of Mantua who practiced medicine; Hillel Baruch Shalom [Lelio] Cantoni (1802-1857), Rabbi of Turin; Abraham Lattes (1809-1875), Rabbi of Venice and Abraham Chai Reggio (1755-1842), Rabbi of Gorizia and later faculty-member of the Rabbinical Seminary. See Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, Volume V, p. 95: Festschriften of Jewish Educational Institutions, no. 1

The manuscripts are mostly in Italian (English translation provided in many cases), with a sprinkling of Hebrew. In eight folders with English descriptions and translations in each folder

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