ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON of Hamburg Aleh Terufah 1785

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ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON of Hamburg. Aleh Terufah. [23] leaves. 8vo, completely disbound; outer corners of first and last few leaves darkened and chipped. London: Alexander Alexander and son, 1785

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First edition of a tract examining the permissibility of smallpox inoculation under rabbinic law; also published the same year in abridged form in the Berlin Haskalah journal Ha-Me'asef. Drawing on the 1683 medical manual Otsar ha-Hayyim by Jacob Zahalon, "the responsum offers a rich mixture of rabbinical opinion, medical information, and common sense" (Ruderman). EJ II, 156; Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 338; Ruderman, "Some Jewish Responses to Smallpox Prevention in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," Aleph 2 (2002), pages 116-125; Vinograd, London 111; not in ESTC.