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Bidding Information
Lot #    12336
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 1:16:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Hebrew Album of Prominent
Title (Hebrew)    אלבום עברי
City    New York
Publisher    S. Druckerman Bookseller
Publication Date    5665[1905]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First edition. [15] ff., 24 pp. ports., 232:190 mm., usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern paper wrappers with title section of original front panel pasted down.
          
Detailed
Description
   The Hebrew Album consists of 15 leaves of portraits followed by text in Hebrew and English (printed in facing columns) giving basic biographical information on 80 "prominent Israelites of America". The introduction states that the album is divided into groups: Philanthropists, Rabbis, Preachers, Professors, Zionists, Editors and Publishers, Legislators, and Contributors to "The Nation." Another edition of this abum was published by a weekly newspaper called HaLam by Moshe Dov ben Eliezer Aryeh HaKohen Goldman.
          
Paragraph 2    על הכריכה: אלבום עברי תשורה לקוראי "הלאם" (עתון שבועי) שנת תרס"ה ... יו"ל על ידי מ. גאלדמאנן ... אלבום זה יצא גם בכריכה שונה ועליה: אלבום עברי; שמונים תמונות מגדולי ישראל באמריקה עם תולדותיהם .S.Druckerman Bookseller New York עברית ואנגלית.
          
Reference
Description
   CD-EPI 0124158; Deinard 44
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica