A lament over the death of Rabbi Avraham Shimshon Underwiser, the chief rabbi of the Netherlands - an acrostic composed of his name - printed after his tragic death in an electric accident in 1934. Dutch. A lament printed in a limited number of copies near his death. rare.
The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Shimshon Underwiser [1862-1934]. Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands, translator of the Torah into Dutch and founder of the Bezalel Jewish-Dutch Union. At the age of only 24, he was ordained a rabbi after studying at the Rabbinical Seminary in Amsterdam, under the guidance of Chief Rabbi Dr. Yosef Hirsch Diner. Worked on translating the Torah with Rashi's commentary to the Dutch language. The translation was published in five volumes between 1895 and 1901. Rabbi Underwiser's goal was to create a translation that would be as faithful as possible to the original, but also understandable to all. The translation has been successful and is still in use today. In 1888, Rabbi Onderwiser replaced the rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam, Rabbi Abraham van Loen, where he served as the first rabbi born in the Netherlands. In 1917, Rabbi Onderwiser was elected Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam and the entire North Holland district, a position he held until his death in an electrical accident in 1934. Rabbi Onderwiser was highly regarded throughout the Netherlands even outside the Jewish public. On the fortieth anniversary of his tenure in the rabbinate, he was awarded the title of "Knight" in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, the most important order of honor in the country. A few years after his appointment as Chief Rabbi, he was also appointed an officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Rabbi Underwiser was immortalized in the central district of Amsterdam, on a street named after him (A. S. Onderwijzerhof). The street is adjacent to the Museum of Jewish History in Amsterdam.
[2] p. 25x17 cm. Very good condition.
