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Gutachten uber Exhumierung und Aschenurnenbeisetzu, R. Mayer Lerner, Berlin 1905

חיי עולם - Only Edition - Polemic against cremation

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  • Lot Number 54461
  • Title (English) Gutachten uber Exhumierung und Aschenurnenbeisetzu
  • Title (Hebrew) חיי עולם
  • Note Only Edition - Polemic against cremation
  • Author R. Mayer Lerner
  • City Berlin
  • Publisher Zevi Hirsch Itzkoveski
  • Publication Date 1905
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  • Item # 2619870
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Physical Description

Only edition. XXIV, 133, [1], 34 pp., quarto, 235:157 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in later boards with title wrappers pasted down.
 

Detail Description

On the prohibition of cremation by R. Mayer b. Mordecai Lerner (1857–1930), rabbi. Lerner was born in Czestochowa (Poland). He studied first in Cracow but completed his studies in the Rabbiner-Seminar in Berlin. While still a student at the seminary he wrote his important work Anlage und Quellen des Bereschit Rabba (1882). He was appointed rabbi of Wintzenheim, Alsace, in 1884 and remained there until 1890, when he became rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues in London, which then consisted of 23 synagogues. In 1894 he was appointed rabbi of Altona and of Schleswig-Holstein. Lerner vigorously opposed the historical approach of Graetz and the Reform movement in Germany.

Lerner's main talmudic works are his Hadar ha-Karmel (1891), responsa, including some talmudic novellae. His research works, in addition to the above-mentioned Quellen include "Die aeltesten Mischna - Kompositionen" (MWJ, 13 (1886), 1–20) and his magnum opus, Torat ha-Mishnah, dealing with the origin of the oral tradition, of which, however, only the first part appeared (1915). He also showed an active interest in the Jewish settlement of Palestine and in 1905 founded the association Moriah whose aims were "to restore the ancient ruins, and the national and religious culture of the Jews." The association was opposed both to the Mizrachi and the Zionist movements, and in 1930 merged with the Agudat Israel movement.

Added t.p.: Gutachten Rabbinen aller Laender ueber Exhumierung und Aschenurnen-beisetzung auf juedischen Friedhofen. Herausgegeben von Oberrabbiner D. M. Lerner...

     

Hebrew Description

חלק ראשון; קובץ מכתבי גאוני דורנו ע"ד פנוי המתים וקבורת אפר הנשרפים (המצווים לשרוף גויתם). חוות דעות גדולי רוססיא, אוסטריא-אונגארן, רומניא, אשכנז, האללאנד, צרפת ואנגליא, ארצות הברית וארצות המערב וארץ הקדושה. ונוסף עליהן קונטרס הר הכרמל, מהה"ג מהרא"ה (אלי' בהרב... ר' יוסף זצל"ה הערצענבערג) נ"י וקונטרס אור הנר מהמו"ל. כל אלה חברו לו יחדיו מהצעיר מאיר בלא"א מהר"ם ז"ל לערנער שומר משמרת הקודש פק"ק אלטאנא...

מהקדמת המחבר: "אחרי רואי שיצא חבור אחד לאור [חקר הלכה, מינכען תרס"ד], בו הרע המחבר [ר' חנוך עהרענטרייא] לדבר בשמי דברים שלא עלו על לבי... אמרתי... עת לדבר ולפרסם חוות דעת הגאונים". עיין גם ספרו: [שתי תשובות], Krakau [1903].

 

References

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000201049 (incomplete); EJ