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Lot #    15010
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 10:44:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Me-Ayin u-le-An
Title (Hebrew)    מאין ולאין
Author    Saul Israel ben Benjamin Feivush ha-Levi Hurwitz
City    Berlin
Publisher    Achisefer
Publication Date    1914
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First edition. [8], 285, [2] pp., octavo, 220:165 mm.,
          
Detailed
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   First edition of these collected essays on Jewish issues by Saul Israel ben Benjamin Feivush ha-Levi Hurwitz, a known Hebrew writer and critic. There is a half-title page, a full title page in German, Woher und Wohin? Gesammelte Aufsaetze und Essays ueber juedische Probleme, and a Hebrew title page whichstates that it is collected essays on Jews and Judaism. A preface by the author precedes the text which is in a single column in square letters. At the end of the volume are errata and a table of contents. Me-Ayin u-le-An is comprised of sixteen essays, which address such varied topics as the existence of Judaism, two ways, at the time of Neilah, Jewish youth, and a series on Jewish historym, including R. Judah ha-Levi, Hassdidus and the Haskalah, and two essays on Shabetai Zevi.

Saul Israel ben Benjamin Feivush ha-Levi Hurwitz, (1861–1922),. Born in Uvarovichi (Mogilev district), Russia, Hurwitz became a successful merchant and banker. After the 1905 revolution, he moved to Berlin, returning in 1914 to Russia where he lost his fortune during the Communist Revolution and after much suffering returned to Berlin in 1921. Here he was a prominent figure in the circle of emigre Hebrew writers and thinkers and was active in Zionist work. Together with H. N. Bialik he directed the Kelal publishing house. From his youth, Hurwitz contributed stories and articles to Hebrew journals, and in 1892 he published the literary magazine Beit Eked. His best known polemic article "Li-She'elat Kiyyum ha-Yahadut" ("On the Question of the Survival of Judaism"), published in Ha-Shilo'ah in 1903, questioned all Jewish values and all attempts at resolving the problem of Jewish survival, and he became a central figure in the resulting controversy with Ahad Ha-Am's supporters. Hurwitz eventually established his own journal He-Atid (1908–13) to serve as a venue for the clarification of Jewish issues. Excerpts from his memoirs were published in Ha-Shilo'ah and Ha-Toren during his lifetime and posthumously. Some of his articles were collected and published under the title Me-Ayin u-le-An (1914).

          
Paragraph 2    קובץ מאמרים בעניני היהודים והיהדות, [מאת] ש"י איש הורוויץ...

בעמוד האחרון: "המאמרים הללו נכתבו מזמן לזמן במשך עשר שנים >תרס"ג-תרע"ג<" ונדפסו במקומות שונים.

          
Reference
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   BE 91; JE; Waxman, Literature, 4 (1960), 393–6; Hurwitz, in Haolam, 23 (1935), 211f.; idem, in: Gilyonot, 27 (1952), 207–10 (includes bibliography); Fishman, in: En Hakore (1923), 98–103; M. Glickson, Ishim ba-Madda u-va-Sifrut, 2 (1941), 271–7; idem,Ketavim (1963), 345–50; Mordecai ben Hillel ha-Kohen, Olami, 2 (1927), 321–5; Baal Makhshoves, Sekirot u-Reshamim (1912), 27–36; Y. L. Gorelik, Be-Erez Nod (1944), 62–65; F. Lachower, Rishonim ve-Aharonim (19662), 286–9; E. Hurwicz, in: YLBI, 12 (1967), 85–102; CD-EPI 0137578
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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