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Lot #    15704
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 12:52:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Hikrei Lev
Title (Hebrew)    חקרי לב
Author    [Only Ed. - Haskalah] Max Letteris
City    Pressburg (Bratislava)
Publisher    Anton Edlen von Schmid
Publication Date    1837
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [3], 5-21 pp. plus wrappers, 170:122 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in later half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    A treatise on Bible study 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.
          
Paragraph 2    ... נכבדות מדובר בו על עשרים וארבעה ספרי קדשנו, והדרך... להגות בהם בנפש תמימה... מאת מאיר הלוי לעטטעריס...

Added t.p.: Chicre Lew; Betrachtungen... ueber das hoehere Studium der heiligen Schrift... von M. Letteris...

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0143881; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
Other:    Haskalah
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica