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Bidding Information
Lot #    13585
Auction End Date    3/7/2006 11:16:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kinnor Zion
Title (Hebrew)    כנור ציון
Author    [Haskalah] Hotzat Toshia
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Halter and Partners
Publication Date    1900
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [4], vi, 5-118 pp., octavo, 180:102 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy loose in the original cloth over boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Collection of Hebrew verse and piyyutim over the ages. The title page states that it is choice songs of Zion from biblical times until the present arranged And edited by the publishing firm Toshia. There is Cyrillic on the bottom and verso of the title page, followed by a dedication to the Fourth Zionist Congress in London. There is a four page table of contents listing the poems and their authors, a forward from the publishers, and then the text, in tow columns in square vocalized Hebrew letters. Kinnor Zion begins with verses from Psalms (137), selections from Isaiah, Ezekiel, Lamentations, kinnot, prayers and piyyutim, and continues with some of the greatest poets in the history of Hebrew verse, starting wioth R. Solomon ibn Gabirol, R. Judah ha-Levi, R. Abraham ibn Ezra, R. Judah Alharizi, R. Shem Tov ben Joseph ibn Falquera, R. Immanuel ben Solomon ha-Zafroni ha-Romi, R. Israel Nagara, R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, and continues with many others, concluding with more modern poets. Kinnor Zion is bound with its original front wrapper, a pink cover with depictions of King David sitting by a tree playing his harp and standing next to him a woman, presumably representing Zion. In the distance can be seen the ruins of Zion. In the lower left hand corner is the original price of 100.
          
Paragraph 2    מבחר שירי-ציון בשפת עבר מימי כתבי הקדש עד ימינו אלה... סדרו ונערכו ע"י הוצאת "תושיה" (לכבוד הקונגרס הציוני הרביעי בלונדון)...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0303637
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica