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Lot #    14509
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 10:30:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Divrei Yosef
Title (Hebrew)    דברי יוסף
Author    [First Ed. - Astronomy] R. Yehoseph Schwartz
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Israel b. Abraham Bak
Publication Date    1843
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [8], 70, [6] ff., 150:106 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern half leather and cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Yehoseph Schwartz (1804–1865), rabbi and early Erez Israel geographer. Born in Floss, Bavaria, Schwarz studied at the University of Wuerzburg, devoting himself to the understanding of the Bible and the oral tradition. In 1829 he prepared a map of Erez Israel in Hebrew and German that was published in three editions by 1832. He settled in Jerusalem (1833) and lived there until his death, being the first Jew, after Estori ha-Parhi, to devote himself to the study of historical topography of the Land of Israel. R. Schwarz registered the rising and setting of the sun 4,000 times and composed a calendar of the length of each day of the year in Jerusalem, which was published in 1860 by his son-in-law R. Azriel Aharon Yaffe. In 1845 he published Tevu'ot ha-Arez ("The Produce of the Land") in Jerusalem. It deals with the borders of Erez Israel, its topography, the division of the country according to the Bible and the rabbinic tradition, the genealogy of the peoples (Gen. 10), geographical names in the Bible, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. It also includes chapters on the flora and fauna, climate, and the earthquakes of the country and a section devoted to the history of Erez Israel from the destruction of the Second Temple. This book was translated into English by R. Isaac Leeser under the title A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine and printed together with a map and illustrations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1850 (reprint 1970), when R. Schwarz visited there on behalf of the scholars of Jerusalem. Two years later the book appeared in German, translated by Israel Schwarz, the author's nephew. The book contains about a hundred correct identifications of places based on talmudic literature. R. Schwarz headed a "yeshivah ketannah," i.e., an elementary yeshivah for students before proceeding to an ordinary yeshivah, and published his work on halakhot and aggadah in Sarei ha-Me'ah (Jerusalem, 1861), and Divrei Yosef (ibid., 1862).
          
Paragraph 2    שחברתי אני... יהוסף שווארץ מילדי האשכנזים...

חלק (א): עם שער שני: זה ספר תולדות יוסף נחלק לד חלקים. חלק א... תבואות השמש, ובו ד מאמרים ... א. כדור הארץ, ב. אילת השחר, ג. צל המעלות, ד. דרך מבוא השמש. ירושלים, דפוס ישראל ב"ק, תר"ג. [8], ע, [6] דף. דף [2-1 בסוף]: חלק ב, תבואת הארץ, הקדמה. דף [6-3]: "חצי הירעה העודפת", שאלה "בילד שנולד ביום ב של חג הסוכו' 15 דקים" אחרי השקיעה, אימתי ימול; מענין תוספת יוה"כ; ברמב"ם... מהלכות נזירות; שבת דף עג ע"א.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0168753; EJ;JE; Halevy, Jerusalem Imprints 17
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Astronomy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica