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Kohn-Zedek, Joseph Asaf : MUSAR HASKEL ... SHELOSHA DERUSHIM = THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSES: DELIVERED ON VARIOUS OCCASSIONS

London; Abrams & Son, 1878

Original wraps. 8vo. 100 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. A collection of sermons by Joseph Kohen-Zedek, an “Austro-English rabbinical scholar and preacher; born in Lemberg 1827; died in London 1903. His family claimed to trace its ancestry back to the exilarchs through Solomon Luria and Moses Isserles. Zedek was instructed by Joseph Saul Nathansohn, chief rabbi of Lemberg, and attended also the yeshibah of Joseph Yekeles, rabbi of Yavorov. While at Lemberg he produced a number of Hebrew poems of a patriotic character, and edited a volume of collectanea in honor of Sir Moses Montefiore, entitled ‘Neweh Tehillah’ (Lemberg, 1869) . He likewise edited at Lemberg the Hebrew periodicals ‘Meged Yerahim’ (1855-57) , ‘Ozar Hokmah’ (1859-65) , and ‘Ha-Yehudi ha-Nizhi’ (1866) . Zedek was a fluent preacher in Hebrew, and occupied temporary positions at Cracow and Altona, as well as at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where he issued the first numbers of another Hebrew periodical, ‘Or Torah’ (1874) . He went to London in 1875, and in that city he published the following works: ‘Mussar Haskel’ (1878) , a collection of his sermons; ‘Or Hadash’ (1881) ; ‘Ha-Torah weha-Mizwah’ (1884) ; and a collection of responsa entitled ‘Urim we-Tummim. ’ He moreover edited Joseph Cohen's ‘Dibre ha-Yamim’ (1859) , Kalonymus' ‘Eben Bohan’ (1865) , and a curious account of a blood accusation at Granada in 1845 under the title ‘Ohole Shem’ (London, 1883) . During his later years this scholar collected a mass of material for a biographical and literary history of English rabbis, and published a volume of ‘Biographical Sketches of Eminent Jewish Families’ (ib. 1897) . ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) . Subjects: Jewish sermons, Hebrew. Judaism. OCLC lists two copies (Colombia, Johns Hopkins) . Wraps rebacked. Light soiling to wraps and outer edges, internally very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (CJH-1-11)

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