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LOT 32:
RABBI MORRIS JACOB RAPHALL. Salt print, knees-up ...
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RABBI MORRIS JACOB RAPHALL. Salt print, knees-up seated view.
Relaxed view of Raphall wearing large yarmulke (skullcap) and holding cane. His top hat placed on table alongside. Image hand-tinted and colored.
Original wood and metal frame with matting and glass. Wood backed. Overall dimensions 13 x 11 inches.
1850’s SALT PRINT IMAGE OF RABBI MORRIS RAPHALL.
Morris Jacob Raphall (1798-1868) was a Swedish-born scholar and rabbi, who served as personal secretary to London’s Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschel before emigrating to America in 1849. There, he was appointed rabbi of Manhattan's B'nai Jeshurun Congregation (then called the Greene Street Synagogue).
Rabbi Raphall had the honor of being the first non-Christian to offer a prayer before a session of Congress in 1860.
Despite being a Unionist, in 1861 Raphall defended the institution of slavery in the United States as having a biblical basis. Although he chastised Southern slave owners for treating slaves as objects rather than as human beings, as well as deviating from the biblical manner of slaveholding, Raphall took a stance against the Abolitionists.
This unique image of Rabbi Raphall featured in the documentary film "Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray" (2011).
