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Lot #    13014
Auction End Date    1/24/2006 11:01:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Herev Hado
Title (Hebrew)    חרב חדה
Author    [Polemic- Only Ed.] Ephraim Deinard
City    Kearny, NJ
Publisher    Ephraim Deinard
Publication Date    1904
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 24, 12 pp., 215:145 mm., light age staining, wide margins, stamps. A very good copy loose in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Anti-hasidic polemic by Israel b. Judah Loeb Loebel, translated to Hebrew by Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930), bibliographer and Hebrew author. Born in Sasmakken, Latvia, Deinard wandered in his youth, collecting ancient manuscripts and books in many countries, and then established a bookshop in Odessa. In 1897 he tried unsuccessfully to found an agricultural settlement in Nevada (U.S.). An active Zionist, he settled in Palestine in 1913 where he investigated the possibilities of Jewish settlement. After being expelled by the Turks in 1916 he returned to the United States and continued his bibliographical work. His two most noteworthy bibliographical works are Or Mayer: Catalogue of the Old Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Library of the Hon. Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia (1896) and Koheleth America (1926), a listing of Hebrew books published in America from 1735 to 1926. The first part of the latter work contains essays on the state of Hebrew literature in America, which are written in his unadorned, but typically acerbic, style. He laid the foundations of the Hebrew book and manuscript collections of the Library of Congress with the financial aid of Jacob Schiff. A violent polemicist on many controversial subjects, he attacked Reform Judaism, Hasidism, Christianity, and Karaism. Deinard was a prolific Hebrew writer, producing more than 50 books and pamphlets often signed with his pseudonym, Adir. These included Toledot Even Reshef (1879; a biography of Abraham Firkovich, whom he knew in the Crimea); Sefer Massa Krim (1878; on travels in Crimea); Massa le-Erez Kedem (1883; travels in Palestine and Egypt); Sefer Miflagot be-Yisrael (1899; on the Subbotniki and Hasidim); Zikhronot Bat Ammi (1920; a history of Russian Jewry over the previous 70 years). He also published several short-lived Hebrew and Yiddish journals, among them Ha-Le'ummi, one of the earliest Hebrew periodicals in America.
          
Paragraph 2    כתובה בשפת אשכנז בידי הרב ר' ישראל לאבל סגן הרב בנאווארדאק ונעתקה לעברית בידי אפרים דיינארד ונלוה אליה בסופה קיצור מספר זאת תורת הקנאות הנמצא בכ"י באוקספורד >עם הקדמה ערוכה מאת המעתיק< ...

נגד החסידים. "המחברת הזאת נדפסה במ"ע 'שולמית' בשפת אשכנז, שנה א, חלק ב, צד 308, דעסוי, משנת 1807, בשם 'ידיעות נאמנות ע"ד כת החסידים בפולין וליטא'. והמו"ל העיר על זה כדברים האלה: הידיעה הזאת כבר נדפסה בפראנקפורט דאדר במחברת מיוחדה בשנת 1799 (עמ' 12)".

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0142409; EJ; Deinard, America 330
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica