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The text is preceded by 12 portraits. The verso of the title page is another title page in French. The book was printed by Joseph Fisher in Krakow. The title page indicates that this volume is part one (in ten chapters). No other volume was ever published.
Moses Reines (1870-1891) has written a volume of bio-bibliographies of major literary figures in the contemporary (1890) Jewish world including their literary approach, etc. and included portraits of the scholars with facsimiles of their signatures.
Reines was a Russian scholar and author; born at Lida (where his father, R. Isaac Jacob Reines, was rabbi) in 1870; died there March 7, 1891. Moses Reines was the author of: "Ruah ha-Zeman," material for the history of Jewish culture in Russia (published in "Ozar ha-Sifrut," vol. ii.); "Nezah Yisrael," on the persistence of the Jewish people, the colonization of Palestine, etc. (Cracow, 1890); "Aksanyut shel Torah," material for a history of the yeshibot in Russia (ib. 1890); "Dor wa-Hakamaw," part i., twelve biographies of modern Jewish scholars (ib. 1890).
There is a “Word to the Reader” on p.17-18 written by Shealteal Eizik Greber.
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