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Lot #    15221
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 12:28:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Massa b-Europa
Title (Hebrew)    מסע באיירופא
Author    [Only Ed.] Ephraim Deinard
City    Pressburg (Bratislava)
Publisher    David Loew
Publication Date    1885
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 196, [2] pp., 215:138 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in later boards, rubbed and taped.
          
Detailed
Description		    Record of the Author's travels in Europe. 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    יכלכל השקפה פרטית וכללית על דרכי בני ישראל באיירופא. בדרך מסעי ברוסיא הדרומית, בעססאראביען, פאדאליען, וואלהיניען, פולין, ליטויא, זאמוט, קורלאנד, עסטלאנד, פינלאנד, רוסיא הפנימית וקו- קאז. אשכנז וארצות הרהיין, בריטניא, צרפת, בעלגיען, אסטרייך- אונגארן, רומעניען, תוגרמה האיירופית. ובסופו מאמר אודות הקאלאניזאציאן בארץ הקדושה, מאת הנוסע אפרים דיינארד ...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0125898; EJ
        
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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America-South America:    Checked
Other:    Hungary
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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