(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) RAPHALL REV M J Bible View of Slaver

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) RAPHALL, REV. M. J. Bible View of Slavery, a Discourse delivered at the Jewish Synagogue Bnai Jeshurum, New York. 1-41, [2] pages. Small 8vo, original flexible black cloth, stamped in gilt; damp-stain going through the entire text, still quite readable, the binding quite sound. New York: Carleton, 1861

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a very scarce pro-slavery tract by an important rabbi and hebrew scholar. Morris Jacob Raphall (1798-1868), rabbi, scholar, and author was born in Sweden to the banker for the King of Sweden. The young Raphall showed exceptional abilities and was educated in the best schools in Europe. He excelled in languages and was for a time chief assistant to the head Rabbi of Great Britain. This tract, a proslavery argument based on Biblical teachings was strongly refuted by David Einhorn, and Michael Heilprin, two important American rabbis who felt that Raphall's work might stimulate American anti-Semitism.