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Lot #    16191
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 1:12:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ha-Ziyyonit
Title (Hebrew)    הציוניות
Author    [First Ed.] Joseph ben Dov Sapir
City    Vilna
Publisher    Shraga Feivel Gruber
Publication Date    1903
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First Hebrew edition. [6], 154, [2] pp., octavo, 180:113 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in later boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    First edition of this work on the essence and development of the Zionist movement by Joseph ben Dov Sapir. It was written for the general reader was published in both Russian and Hebrew. Ha-Ziyyonit was an authoritative source for Zionist education. It was brought to press by Shimon ben Jacob Velikovsky and translated into Hebrew by Nahum Leib נאוואפלאנט. There is a preface by the publisher in which he express his gratitude to Velikovsky for raising three hundred rubles for publication and an introduction form Moses Leib Levinsohn. The text, set in a single column in square letters into fifteen chapters, on such topics as Zionism in the history if Israel, spiritual subjection, the conditions of the life of our brothers concerning income and health, the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century (first and second periods), settlement of Erez Israel and Hibbat Zion, essence of the Zionist movement, Zionism and progress, and the obligations of every Zionist.

Joseph ben Dov Sapir (1869–1935) was a Zionist leader. Born in Kishinev, Sapir qualified as a doctor. A member of Hovevei Zion from his youth, he was one of the most prominent Zionists in Odessa and established a publishing house, Di Kopeke Bibliotek, which published Zionist literature in Yiddish and Russian. He edited a Russian-language Zionist weekly called Kadimah ("Forward," later Yevreyskai Mysl', 1907). After the 1917 Revolution Sapir was elected chairman of the South Russia Zionist Organization and was one of the leaders of the committee that aided victims of pogroms. He left Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, spending several years in Bessarabia, and reached Palestine in 1925. Sapir was director of a department of the Bikkur Holim hospital in Jerusalem. He also engaged in painting and sculpture and published a book of articles and memoirs, Halutzei ha-Tehiyyah (1930).
          
Paragraph 2    ... מבאר ברוח מדעי ובסגנון פשוט את מהותה וקורותיה של התנועה הציונית, [מאת] ד"ר י. ספיר... נעתק לשפת עבר ע"י נחום ליב נאוואפלאנט...

עמ' [6-4]: הקדמה מאת מ[שה] ל[יב] ליליענבלום. המקור: (אותיות קיריליות).

          
Reference
Description		    BE zaddik 231; EJ; CD-EPI 0154729
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Zionism
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica