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In Hebrew. 1,674 pages. 23 x 16 x cm. Weight when packed, c. 7 pounds. 36 illustrations. Though printed more than half a century ago, this set of the 7th edition with corrections and additions is internally in as good a condition as on the day it came off the printing press. Having been printed on high quality paper, it has not yellowed at all. However, the dust jackets have chips and tears. Pages: Book 1: 302. Book 2: 304. Book 3: 251. Book 4: 214. Book 5: 275. Book 6: 328. Total: 1674 pages. Yehuda Leib Maimon (11 December 1875 - 10 July 1962), also known as Yehuda Leib Fishman Hacohen Maimon, was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the Religious Zionist movement. He was Israel's first Minister of Religions. Maimon was born in Marculesti, Bessarabia (then part of the Russian Empire, now in Moldova). He studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of the Aruch HaShulchan. He was one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in 1902. He moved to the Russian Empire, where he was arrested several times for Zionist activity. He was a delegate to the ninth Zionist Congress in 1909, and attended every one until Israeli independence in 1948. In 1913 Maimon moved to Eretz Israel (then part of the Ottoman Empire), was expelled by the Turks during World War I, moved to the United States, where he organized the Mizrachi movement. After returning to then British controlled Mandatory Palestine in 1919, Maimon became leader of Mizrachi in the country and together with Abraham Isaac Kook he helped establish the Chief Rabbinate. He was elected to the board of the Jewish Agency in 1935. In 1937 he founded Mossad Harav Kook, a religious research foundation and notable publishing house named in honor of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. In 1946, he was imprisoned by the British in Latrun during Operation Agatha. The British detained him on the Jewish Sabbath, and he objected to riding in a vehicle on the Sabbath, and offered instead to walk to a nearby police station. The British refused his offer and forcibly manhandled him into a waiting car. Maimon helped draft Israel's declaration of independence, and was one of its signatories. He was appointed Minister of Religions, and also as Minister of War Victims in the provisional government set up immediately after independence. He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 as a member of the United Religious Front (an alliance of Agudat Yisrael, Poalei Agudat Yisrael, Mizrachi and Hapoel HaMizrachi) and retained his ministerial role in the first and second governments. He was the driving force behind a failed effort to reestablish the Sanhedrin. He lost his seat in the 1951 elections. He was also heavily involved in various Jewish publishing endeavors and was awarded the Israel Prize in 1958 in Rabbinical literature. N° de réf. du vendeur 010823
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Titre : Sarey HaMea (six books in 3 volumes, ...
Éditeur : Mosad Harav Kook / Achiasaf Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel
Date d'édition : 1965
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Fair
