Auction 83
PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, HOLY LAND MAPS, CEREMONIAL OBJECTS, FINE & GRAPHIC ART
Jun 20, 2019
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Baruch Halevi Yafith. Mein Zeydeh's Hagodeh, oder a Pogrom oyf dem Afikoman [satirical Passover Hagadah]. With notes by "Ma'aseh Alfas" [pseudonym of Benzion Alfas]
FIRST EDITION. Yiddish text.
pp. 40. Browned. Original marbled boards. 8vo.
Vilna: Rosenkranz and Schriftsetzer 1908
A celebration of Jewish history through the ages and the miracle of Jewish survival despite recurrent anti-Semitism. Footnotes in Hebrew refer to Rabbinic literature. The author, Benzion Alfas (1850-1940), was a student of the famed "kibbutz" of Eishishok and of the Gaon's kloiz in Vilna. See Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur, Vol. I (1956) cols. 118-120.
A celebration of Jewish history through the ages and the miracle of Jewish survival despite recurrent anti-Semitism. Footnotes in Hebrew refer to Rabbinic literature. The author, Benzion Alfas (1850-1940), was a student of the famed "kibbutz" of Eishishok and of the Gaon's kloiz in Vilna. See Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur, Vol. I (1956) cols. 118-120.
