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Kol Nehi MiTzion – Polemic of Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger against Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer – Jerusalem, 1872

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Kol Nehi MiTzion, bans and warnings against R. Azriel Hildesheimer, edited by R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger. Jerusalem: [Shmelke Yosef Shmer and his brother-in-law Yitzchak Gościnny, 1872].
Anthology of bans and warnings opposing R. Azriel Hildesheimer, following his call for founding schools and orphanages in Jerusalem with secular studies. The various notices are signed by 113 rabbis.
Edited by R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, who identifies himself with his initials on p. 8b.


[1], 8, [1] leaves. 18.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Tears to inner margins of several leaves, repaired with tape. Worming, affecting text, partially repaired with tape. Bottom margins of last leaf repaired with paper (apparently supplied from another copy). Handwritten inscriptions. New leather binding.


Sh. Halevy, no. 181.

Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem
Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem