Shirey Tiferet : khibur kolel shemona asar shirim. . . Makhberet khamishit.

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In Hebrew. (16) pages, 64 leaves, 15 leaves. 21 x 12 cm. Title page has traces of a reddish wax seal, a hard to decipher signature at the top margin, two undeciphered triangular inked stamps. Also, a censor's round rubber stamp impression in Polish: Cenzura ksiag zydowskich. KOM. Rzad Wyzn Relig" Translation: "Censure of Jewish Books. KOM" KOM might stand for committee of religious faiths. Last word remains a puzzle. The second leaf has the rubber stamp impression of "E[phraim] Deinard Odessa" with an un-deciphered word/s. Back free endpaper has some figures and an unidentified word or signature with what is presumably a date: 1840. on a broad range of topics such as travel, biography, history, and religion. The first section, un-paginated is an introduction by the poet. The second section consists of three of his poems, numbers 13, 14, and 15. The last section, unpaginated is comments about this fifth notebook, or volume. The previous four notebooks, or volumes, presumably consist of poems 1 through 12. Famed as a Haskalah poet, linguist and exegete Wessely (1725-1805) was in his youth a disciple of R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz. However upon moving to Berlin he came under the influence of Moses Mendelssohn whom he assisted in composing the Bi'ur. Wessely pioneered the revival of Biblical Hebrew but in doing so encountered linguistic problems. In later years, Wessely engendered controversy among the rabbis by way of his publication Divrei Shalom Ve-Emeth in which he claimed it is impossible to comprehend Divine teachings without secular acculturation and that studying the Torah without acquiring a broader knowledge-base results in one being a burden upon society. See M. Carmilly-Weinberger, Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History (1977) pp. 111-3 and A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn, A Biographical Study (1973) pp. 476-86; and A. S. Flatto, The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague: Ezekiel Landau and His Contemporaries (2010) pp. 75-9. Recently, Congregation Sha?arei Chaim of Williamburg, Brooklyn, held a ceremonial public burning of one of his books because of Wessely's role in the Haskalah. N° de ref. del artículo 013006

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