Mayer Randegger, Zinnath David 1841.

Year of publication: 1841
Publisher: Coi tipi di Francesco nobile de Sehmid e J.J. Busch
Condition: Used
Cover type: Hard
Size: 15x22cm
Weight: 0.45kg

Mayer Raffaele Randegger - Austrian teacher and rabbi. He was born in the village of Worblingen, which belonged to Austria as property of the Counts of Nellenberg. He became a student of Raphael Risa in Lengnau and studied in Fürth under Salomon Kohn, where he became Meschuchrar. He worked briefly as a private teacher in Vienna before moving to Trieste, where he was a private teacher and then taught at a public Jewish school. He established his own three-classroom school there. He was subrabbin of the Ashkenazi synagogue. Due to conflicts with school authorities, he left Trieste and unsuccessfully tried to open a Jewish school in Rijeka. He taught at the Jewish school in Fiorenzuola d'Arda. In 1848 he had to leave Fiorenzuola due to the political situation and returned to Trieste, where he opened a private school for girls. He exchanged letters with Rabbis Moses Sofer, Mordechai Benet and Ascher Löw. He wrote treatises on biblical topics for Jewish periodicals. In 1841 he published a historical-critical defense of the authenticity of the Book of Psalms.