Raphall, Morris J. Post-Biblical History of the Jews

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Moss & Brother

Philadelphia

1855

Two volumes

Singerman 1409

The Author (1798-1868) presents a well-researced text. Besides quoting ancient sources, such as Josephus, et al, the author has utilized Azariah di Rossi’s Me’or Einayim (Vol. I, p. 127) and the more recent scholarship of historians Peter Beer and Zechariah Frankel (Vol. II, pp. 115-116). Raphall’s rabbinic career was overshadowed by his infamous opinions concerning salvery. At the height of the debate regarding the question of slavery in the United States, Raphall, rabbi of B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue in New York, publicized his view that slavery (though not in the form it took in the South) was endorsed by the Bible. See EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 1551-2