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- Lot Number 54556
- Title (English) Bikkurei ha-Ittim, 5687
- Title (Hebrew) בכורי העתים
- Author Shalom Cohen, Editor
- City Vienna
- Publisher Anton Edlen v. Schmid
- Publication Date 1827
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 2638162
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Description
Physical Description:
Only edition. 208; 80 pp., 180:107 mm,m light age staining, old hands and stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather boards, rubbed.
Detailed Description:
Bikkurei ha-Ittim (First Fruits of the Times), Hebrew literary-scientific annuals, published in Vienna for 12 successive years (1821–32), and a central forum for Haskalah literature. The editor of the first three volumes, Shalom b. Jacob Cohen, sought to continue in this publication the tradition of Ha-Me'assef, the journal which initiated Hebrew periodical publications in the Haskalah period. (He had previously published and edited the last three volumes of Ha-Me'assef he-Hadash.) The first volumes also contained a German section (transcribed into Hebrew letters), which was later discontinued. The editors following Cohen were: Moses Landau (vols. 4–5), Solomon Pergamenter (vol. 6). All the various literary genres were represented in these volumes - e.g., fiction, research, as well as translations of world literature (but mainly from German) - and were contributed by writers from Italy, Bohemia, Austria, Galicia, and Hungary. Reprints of a selection of works from Ha-Me'assef were also included. Other contributors included S. D. Luzzatto and Isaac Erter.
Hebrew Description:
Reference:
EJ; BE 902