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Bidding Information
Lot #    12291
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:54:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Aus Urvater-Tagen
Title (Hebrew)    Biblische Legenden und Marchen
Author    [Only Ed.] Frieda Weissmann
City    Breslau
Publisher    Jakob B. Brandeis
Publication Date    1923
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. 64 pp., 178:157 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description
   The Prague publisher Jakob B. Brandeis died on 20 September 1912. He was the founder of a publishing house and bookstore which, from 1880 onwards, provided the Jewish community with Hebrew prayer books and fiction, as well as educational literature on Jewish topics, mostly in the German language. Jakob B. Brandeis was born in Prague on 3 June 1835, the offspring of an old and distinguished Jewish family.
          
Reference
Description
   http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/apredmet_05_09.htm
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica