Nathan Friedland. Kos Yeshuah VeNechamah [on the blood libel of Damascus and the resettlement of the Land of Israel].

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

v.p.

1859

ff. (2), 18, 20- 33, (1). [Vinograd, Breslau 317]. Breslau, H. Sulzbach, 1859. * Bound with: Kos Yeshuoth [sermons on the return and rebuilding of Zion]. pp. 120. [Vinograd, Krotoschin 128]. Amsterdam (Krotoschin), N. Levison, 1859. Two works bound in one volume. Both first edition. With the rare final leaf of Part I containing a poem dedicated to Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore.

Rabbi Nathan Friedland (1808-83) was one of the foremost Lithuanian preachers espousing the religious return to Zion. He propounded the view that the Redemption will occur in two stages: The natural one - a return to the Land, followed by a Messianic era as a Supernatural event.