אליקים בן איסרל זלדין׃ שומר אמונים לחינוך הבנים Eljakim Jacob Soldin: Shomer `emunim le-chinukh ha-banim (Keeper of the Faith for the Education of the Young). Copenhagen 1787.
7,-179 8º

Title page	P. 3: End of preface with Soldin’s signature

Eljakim Jacob Soldin (before 1770 - after 1813) was one of the advocates for the Jewish Enlightenment movement (the haskalah) in Copenhagen. He wrote on different educational topics, but is also known to have written a number of poems to members of the royal families in Denmark and Sweden. The work Shomer `emunim (a phrase quoted from Is. 26:2) is a discussion in dialogue form between a rabbi and a pupil, on the tenets of Judaism. Similarly to Soldin’s other works it was printed, with his own or with borrowed types, in established non-Jewish printing offices. The work is one of the earliest Hebrew prints directed at a Jewish audience, printed in Denmark proper (i.e. excl. Schleswig-Holstein).

18.6 x 11.7 cm.

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