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Lot #
15034
Auction End Date
7/18/2006 10:56:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Divrei Shir
Title (Hebrew)
דברי שיר
Author
[Haskalah] Max Letteris
City
Minsk
Publisher
Jacob Naftali Ginsburg
Publication Date
1832
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Second edition. 164 pp., 141:84 mm., nice margins, light age staining, stamps, old hands. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
Detailed
Description
Divrei Shir contains original poems as well as translations of Schiller by Meir Letteris (Max; 1800?–1871), Hebrew poet, writer, and editor. The work was first published in Zholkva 1822 by the author's father, the printer Gershon. Max was born in Zolkiew (now Zholkva), Letteris, as a child, was introduced to Nachman Krochmal whom he henceforth considered his mentor. In spite of fame, professional recognition, public honors, and numerous editions of several of his works, he struggled financially all his life, holding jobs as copyreader in different printing houses (but especially in that of Anton von Schmid), and lecturing, publishing periodicals, selling subscriptions, writing occasional poems, and, for some time, even receiving charity. In the course of his work as a copyreader in Vienna, Pressburg, and Prague, he edited important reprints and first editions, to which he added notes, explanations, and biographies. The latter, along with his autobiography, letter collections, and the contributions of his contemporaries to his various publications, convey a vivid picture of the Galician-Austrian Haskalah and all its leading personalities.
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... בהוצאות... המדפיס... וה"ה... מהו' יעקב נפתלי גינצבורג...
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Description
CD-EPI 0143879; EJ
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Russia-Poland:
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Subject
Other:
Poetry
Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
