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Lot #
15652
Auction End Date
9/5/2006 12:26:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Hakirot ha-Lev
Title (Hebrew)
חקירות הלב
Author
R. Solomon Zalman ben Simeon Wetzlar
City
Bruenn (Brno)
Publisher
Franz Joseph Neumann
Publication Date
1784
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
61 ff., quarto, 210:150 mm., usual light age and damp staining, margins trimmed touching severy running titles. A good copy bound in later boards.
Detailed
Description
Ethical work emphasizing ethics and development of refined personal traits In Yididsh by R. Solomon Zalman ben Simeon Wetzlar. The title page, in Hebrew, informs that R. Wetzlar was from Fuerth, although the EJ describes him as one of the prominent citizens of the German community of Weztlar. The title page also states that this book, small in size but of great value, is a guide for men, women, and children. It is beign reprinted due to its unavailability, there not being even one to a city or two to a family, all of which attests to the popularity of this work. The title page is dated with the verse “[The Lord,] knows the thoughts of man, [that they are vanity]” (Psalms94:11). Next is a table of contents (1b-2b), listing the sixty-one chapters comprising Hakirot ha-Lev. At the bottom of 2b is decorative mark with a small impression of the head of a woman at the top. The text follows, in Yiddish, set in a single column in Veiber taitsch. Hakirot ha-Lev was, at one time a popular and much read ethical work. This is the final printing of Hakirot ha-Lev.
Reference
Description
BE het 1149
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Listing Classification
Period
18th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Other:
Ethics
Characteristic
Language:
Yiddish
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
