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KOERNER, MOSHE.
Birchath Moshe [Halacha, along with accounts of personal interactions with rabbis and communal leaders].
FIRST EDITION.
Title page inscribed by the author gifted to a bridegroom on his wedding day.
pp. 24, 116. Contemporary boards, light wear to extremities. 8vo.
Vinograd, Berlin 573.
Berlin I. Lewent 1833.
R. Moshe Koerner (1766-1836) was one of a particular breed of scholars who crossed the divide between traditionalist Eastern Europe and modernist Western Europe.
Early in his career he served as the rabbi of Shklov (today Belarus) and toward the end of his days he settled in Breslau, where he died. Many years in between were spent traveling from community to community, ostensibly to raise funds for the publication of his literary projects.
Despite - or rather because of - his erratic lifestyle, he succeeded in producing an impressive bibliography: Torath Moshe (Nowy Dwor, 1786), homilies on the Chumash; Zera Kodesh (Berlin, 1798), a commentary on the Sifra; Ka’or Nogah (Breslau, 1816) a deconstruction and refutation of Pinchas Hurwitz’s Sepher HaBerith; Igereth Rishphei Kesheth (Hanover, 1831), an account of his wanderings in which he settles scores with old foes; and Megilath Eivah (Breslau, 1837), the autobiography of his ancestor Yom Tov Lippmann Heller.
David E. Fishman, Russia’s First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov (1995), pp. 60-61; Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. IX, p. 235, n. 5; EJ, Vol. X, col. 1132.
