Friedman, Aaron Zebi. Tub Taam or a Vindication of the Jewish Mode of Slaughtering Animals for Food Called Shechitah. Translated from the Hebrew by Laemlein Buttenwieser.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $450

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Philip Cowen for Bloch

Place

New York

Publication

1904

Description

Second Edition.

references

cf Singerman 2550.

summary

Among those who supported the Jewish position on Shechitah in the struggle against the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was President Ulysses S. Grant. According to Joakim Isaacs, Grant “was moved [by this English translation]…to eat only ritually slaughtered meat in the latter part of his life.” See J. Isaacs, “Candidate Grant and the Jews,” American Jewish Archives 17. 1 (1965) p. 15, n. 31; I. H. Sharfman, The First Rabbi (1988) pp. 591-92.

pp. 53. Printed wrappers, detached. 4to.

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