Raphall, Morris J. Post-Biblical History of the Jews.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

L. Johnson

Philadelphia

1855

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes.

Singerman 1409

Morris Jacob Raphall (1798-1868) a native of Sweden, was educated in Denmark, Germany and England. In 1849 he was appointed Rabbi of the B'nei Jeshurun Congregation of New York, in which capacity he served almost until his death. Raphall’s rabbinic career was somewhat charged, when at the height of the debate regarding the question of slavery in the United States, he published his views that slavery (though not in the form it took in the South) was endorsed by the Bible, thus placing Judaism squarely in opposition to Abolitionism. The present well-researched text quotes from an array of sources including Josephus and Azariah di Rossi, as well as the contemporary scholarship of historians Peter Beer and Zechariah Frankel. See EJ, Vol. XIII cols. 1551-2.