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Lot #		15477
Auction End Date		9/5/2006 10:59:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

A foltamado Szentfold (The Holy Land Restored)

Author

[Only Ed. - Illustrated] Jozsef Patai

City

Budapest (Pest)

Publisher

Korvin Testverek

Publication Date

[1926]

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Physical
Description

Only edition. 272 pp., 284:210 mm., wide margins, age and use staining. A good copy bound in the original boards, spine taped.

Detailed
Description

Jozsef Patai (1882–1953), Hungarian and Hebrew poet, translator, and editor. Patai, who was born in Gyongyospata, taught at a Budapest municipal high school (1908–19). He published a Hebrew verse collection, Sha'ashu'ei Alumim ("The Pleasures of Youth," 1902), and two anthologies of Hungarian poetry Babilon vizein ("By the Waters of Babylon," 1906) and Sulamit latod a langot? ("Shulamit, Do You See the Flame?" 1919). A selection of his poems also appeared in English (1920). He published Hungarian versions of the Hebrew poetry of many eras, his translations eventually appearing in five volumes entitled Heber koltok ("Hebrew Poets," 1910–12; 19212). Three of his most important works were his volume of early recollections, A kozepso kapu ("The Middle Gate," 1927); A foltamado Szentfold ("The Holy Land Restored," 1926), on his first visit to Palestine; and his biography of Theodor Herzl (1931; Star over Jordan, 1946). Patai also distinguished himself as editor of the Zionist monthly Mult os Juvo, which he founded in 1912 and edited for 27 years. By publishing good translations of major Jewish writers from many countries, he imbued Hungarian Jewish intellectuals with an appreciation for Jewish literature, art, and thought. Patai also combated the anti-Zionists, he and some associates founding the Magyar Zsidok Pro Palestina Szovetsege ("League of Hungarian Jews for Palestine"), and organizing annual pilgrimages to Erez Israel.

In 1938 Patai emigrated to Palestine. At first he lived in Jerusalem, but later settled in Givatayim. His subsequent publications include the three-volume selection of his writings Mivhar Kitvei Yosef Patai (1943); and a volume based on his lectures at the Hebrew University (Mi-Sefunei ha-Shirah, 1939).

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