Lot of 2 volumes of the Tur, Orech Hayyim and Choshen Mishpat, with dedication for Aharon Jellinek—Vienna 1810.

Lot of 2 volumes of the Tur, Orech Hayyim and Choshen Mishpat, with dedication for Aharon Jellinek—Vienna 1810.
With covers bearing inscriptions in red ink, a dedication to sage Aharon Jellinek on the volume of the Orech Hayyim from the son of the friend Rav Haim Heinrich Pollak. Rav Aharon (Adolf) Jellinek son of Yitzhak Yehuda (1821-1893) was a Moravian-Jewish sage, who served as a Liberal darshan in Vienna. He edited the “Beit HaMidrash” midrash collections connected more than 100 batei midrash. As a boy he studied in yeshiva as well as secular subjects and languages on his own. In 1838 he moved to Prague and was a student of Shlomo Yehuda Leib Rapaport, under whose influence he began to study Jewish wisdom. In 1842 he moved to Leipzig, where he lived and worked until 1856. There he studied philosophy and Semitic languages in the university and from 1850 he is referenced in various writings as having received a doctorate. During his time in Leipzig he began to give drashot at the synagogue led by the district rabbi, Zecharya Frankel, until he became very popular and well-known for his drashot on religious issues and current events. In 1856 he moved to Vienna and became a preacher at the Templegasse synagogue. Although he received the title “Chief Rabbi” in 1892, he never addressed himself as such, rather as “Prediger” (preacher). In 1862 he founded the Rabbinical Beit Midrash in Vienna (Theologische Israelitische Lehranstalt), which was designed to link the world of yeshivot to the modern rabbinical batei midrash of the Reform movement. Aharon Jellinek is the grandfather of Mercedes Jellinek, after whom the car company is named. These are large volumes with wonderful old bindings. Choshen Mishpat is missing the front binding. Generally good condition.