Bidspirit auction | AMIEL, MOSHE AVIGDOR. Derashoth El-Ami

AMIEL, MOSHE AVIGDOR. Derashoth El-Ami [philosophical essays relating to the Days of Awe]. Hebrew text. Additional title in French. pp. (8), 223. Brittle, title taped. Contemporary boards. 8vo. Warsaw, Lewin-Epstein, 1926.     A noted Jewish philosopher, and a leader in the Mizrachi movement R. Moshe Avigdor Amiel (1882-1945) studied under two of Lithuania’s most brilliant rabbinic scholars: Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. Appointed chief rabbi of wealthy Antwerp, Amiel later followed his religious-Zionist beliefs and settled in Eretz Israel where he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv.