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Bidding Information
Lot #    12159
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:02:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Earth is the L-rd's
Title (Hebrew)    La Tierra es del S-nor
Author    [Woodcuts by Ilya Schor] Abraham Joshua Heschel
City    New York; Buenos Aires
Publisher    Henry Schuman; Candelabro
Publication Date    1950; 1952
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Two volumes, English editionis unread copyt in original boards with dj; Spanish edition with stamps, bound in th original boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   Woodcuts by Ilya Schor (1904–1961), U.S. silversmith, painter, and printmaker. Born in Galicia, he settled in New York in 1941. Schor achieved a reputation as a worker in metal. His jewelry are filled with delicate intricate design. He did a great deal of work for ritual use in synagogues. His work was reminiscent of pre-Emancipation Jewish craftsmen. His oils and some of the books he illustrated with woodcuts were of life in the shtetl.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Theology
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English, Spanish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica