Samson LÉVY, La source de la vie ou Choix d'idées, axiomes, sentences, maximes, proverbes, allégories, paraboles, histoires, etc. (The source of life or a selection of ideas, axioms, sentences, maxims, proverbs, allegories, parables, stories, etc.). Mulhouse, Imprimerie Risler, 1843. In-12, bound in modern full boards. Title page restored in margin. Complete with list of subscribers at the end of the book. Samson Lévy, the author of this book, studied in Frankfurt and at the rabbinical school in Metz. He was a schoolteacher, principal and rabbi in Constantinople, ending his career as rabbi of Mutzig. His work La source de la vie was authorized for all schools by the Central Consistory. Biographical information: Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. Paris, Berg, 2007. 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