Ya'aneh Ba’Esh [responsum forbidding cremation of the dead]

Estimate: $120–$180
Hammer price: $100

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author

Benamozegh, Elijah

printer

Elijah Benamozegh and Sons

Place

Livorno

Publication

1906

Description

Second edition. Title in typographic border. Hebrew with smattering of Italian.

references

Friedberg, Y-817

summary

Elijah Benamozegh (1822-1900), Rabbi of Livorno was an interesting mix of the old and the new. In this responsum, besides marshalling the traditional sources such as Talmud and Maimonides's Code, the author has opportunity to discuss the contemporary scientific theories concerning matter, planetary satellites and the Ether. See EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 462-3.

pp. (2), 27. Browned and brittle. Original colored wrappers bound into later boards. 8vo

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