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Lot #    15621
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 12:10:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Osher u-Zedakkah
Title (Hebrew)    עשר וצדקה
Author    [First Ed. - Rothschild] Kalman Shulman
City    Vilna
Publication Date    1864
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 60 pp. octavo 160:95 mm., light age staining, small tear in title. A good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Osher u-Zedakkah is a biography of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), founder of the famed Rothschild family, by the noted historian and poet, Kalman Shulman (1819-99). Until Mayer Amschel son of Amschel Moses Rothschild, the Rothschilds were undistinguished merchants and communal servants. Mayer Amschel began trading in antiques and old coins and in money changing and thus in 1764 began doing business with the future Landgrave William IX of Hesse-Kassel, an avid coin collector and heir to the largest fortune in Europe. By c.1769 Mayer Amschel had received the title of court agent and was supplying William with rare coins and printing his own coin catalogs. When William became landgrave in 1785, Mayer Amschel was only one of a dozen Jewish court agents competing for the favor of doing business for a landgrave who lent large sums to other rulers. Mayer Amschel managed to increase his share of financial transactions very gradually: his close connections with William IX's confidential financial adviser, C. F. Buderus (who eventually became his silent partner), were of inestimable importance in securing the confidence of the landgrave.
          
Paragraph 2    ספר מעללי... מאיר אנשיל ראטהשילד ז"ל, אבי... בית ראטהשילד... מאת קלמן שולמאן.
          
Reference
Description		    BE ayin 1198; Not in CD-EPI; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica