°[MANUSCRIPT - STRASBOURG] Hidoushei Massekhet Avoda Elilim (Rabbinic commentary on the Talmud tractate Avoda Elilim). Strasbourg, 1823. Manuscript in-4 on paper, 72 ff. including 10 pp. blank. Title page illustrated with column decoration. Bound in modern full paper, the first cover of which reproduces the title page of the manuscript. Enclosed: A double manuscript leaf of rabbinic commentaries, including a blank page. Moïse BLOCH, known as the "Hokhem of Uttenheim" (1790-1868), author of this commentary, was a rabbi known to all Alsatian Jews. He worked in Strasbourg until his death. He was not an official rabbi, but a prestigious teacher of Talmud and Halakhah to students who came to study in his yeshiva, probably housed in his apartment on rue de Hannong or rue Sainte-Hélène. Many of his students went on to become rabbis. The best-known of these was Zadoc Kahn, future Chief Rabbi of Paris, and later of France. Chief Rabbi Arnaud Aron recognized Moïse Bloch's science and consulted with him. It is said that even non-Jews came to consult him. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba