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Talmud Torah BeOdessa, by Nikolai Pirogov, Introduction and Translation by Aleksander Zederbaum. Odessa, 1858
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Talmud Torah BeOdessa, by Nikolai Pirogov, Introduction and Translation by Aleksander Zederbaum. Odessa, 1858
Talmud Torah BaOdessa, a paper extolling the Odessa Talmud Torah, and expressing amazement of the Children of Israel's characteristic inclination to acquire and transmit knowledge. By Nikolai Pirogov, superintendent of New Russian and Kiev school districts. Translation and introduction by Aleksander Tzederbaum. Odessa, 1858.
Unique Features: Appreciation and criticism of Jewish education in Odessa's Talmud Torah by the Commissioner of Education on behalf of Russian authorities, Dr. Nikolai Pirogov. The translator, Aleksander Tzederbaum, added a long introduction in which he criticized corrupt educational approaches, struggles within the community, and dysfunction within the charity system. His proposed solution to the situation was to appoint "leaders with acumen in Torah and secular proceedings, who will find a way appropriate and acceptable to all, to whom the government officials will turn, and whose sound advice will cause them to act favorably ... to improve His People Israel's situation in Russia."
Nikolai Pirogov (1810-1881) was a physician, professor at the University of Tartu, and head of the Department of Surgery at the Academy of Medical Sciences in St. Petersburg. He was responsible for training military doctors, developed and imparted new medical methods in emergency medicine in general and in the surgical system in particular, and performed over 10,000 operations. In 1847 he was appointed a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In his meeting with Czar Alexander II, he mentioned failures in the wounded's treatment in the besieged city Sebastopol, and as a result was exiled from the capital and appointed to an educational position in the Kiev region. The opposition to the educational reforms he sought to implement led to his dismissal a few years later.
Condition: Very fine. Few aging stains on title page.
