Fassel, Hirsch B

Fassel, Hirsch B.

a Jewish rabbi, was born at Boskowitz, in Moravia, in 1801. He was for some time preacher at Prossnitz, in Moravia; and from 1851 until his death, in December 1883, at Gross-Kaniza, in Hungary. He wrote, Das mosaisch- rabbinische Civilrecht (Gross-Kaniza, 1852-54, 2 volumes): — Das mosaischrabbinische Gerichtsverfahren (ibid. 1858): — Die mosaisch- rabbinische Tugend- und Rechtslehre (ibid. eod.): — Das mosaisch- rabbinische Strafrecht und strafrechtliche Gerichtsverfahren (ibid. 1870). He also published a Catechism of Judaism, Sermons, and some minor treatises. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:277; Lippe, Bibliographisches Lexikon (Vienna, 1881), page 98 sq. (B.P.)