Auction 87
HEBREW & JUDAIC PRINTED BOOKS
Jan 16, 2020
USA
242 West 30th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10001
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LOT 32:
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
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(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Saul Gedaliah Harkavy. Sefer VeHu Sha’ul.
FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Title set in typographic border.
pp. 111. Stained, small tears on first 4 leaves, final leaf taped, title detached. Modern boards. 4to. Goldman, 1148.
Boston: Joseph Judah Shor 1911
An anti-assimilationist polemic, written in the form of a running commentary to the Song of Song by a Mir and Volozhin-educated immigrant to Nashua, NH. The author holds up absolutely no hope for a Jewish future in America - only in the Land of Israel can Judaism be certain. “Having dwelt in this land (of America) for a number of years and having seen the disgraceful behavior of my people…I can no longer restrain myself and must make public what weighs so heavily on my heart.”
An anti-assimilationist polemic, written in the form of a running commentary to the Song of Song by a Mir and Volozhin-educated immigrant to Nashua, NH. The author holds up absolutely no hope for a Jewish future in America - only in the Land of Israel can Judaism be certain. “Having dwelt in this land (of America) for a number of years and having seen the disgraceful behavior of my people…I can no longer restrain myself and must make public what weighs so heavily on my heart.”
