Lot 285
Delayed Burial in Judaism – Marcus Hertz – Berlin, 1788
Über die frühe Beerdigung der Juden, Marcuz Herz. Berlin, 1788.
Essay by Marcus (Mordechai) Hertz on the topic of delayed burial.
Hertz (1747-1803) was a Jewish German doctor and philosophy lecturer, friend with Immanuel Kant and Moshe Mendelssohn. Was among the leaders of the delayed burial polemic participants, in which he vehemently expressed his opinion in favor of delayed burial.
There is an engraving on the title page featuring a woman standing by a grave in a Jewish cemetery.
60 pages, 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stamps, unoriginal binding.
