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

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.

Johann Friedrich Hammerich

Altona

1836

FIRST EDITION

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