(Shi"r). Nachlath Yehuda: Ner Mitzvah [anti-Chassidic polemic] and Ohr Torah [critique of "Urschrift" by Abraham Geiger]

RAPPAPORT, SOLOMON JUDAH LEIB

C. Budweiser

Cracow

1868

FIRST EDITION

Rappaport (1790-1867) was married to the daughter of the pre-eminent Talmudist R. Aryeh Leib Heller, author of Ketzoth HaShulchan. A native of Lemberg, he served as rabbi of Tarnopol and later of Prague. His literary career spawned important works of a critical historical nature, some of these studies, especially those of the Gaonic period, were truly groundbreaking and won the acclaim of the leaders of the school of Wissenschaft des Judentums. The present posthumous essays were published by Rappaport’s son David. The anti-Chassidic essay was written to a colleague who was attracted to Chassidism in his youth in 1815. The critique of Geiger was written in 1866