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Lot #    17816
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 11:39:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sippurim, Second Collection
Title (Hebrew)    ñôåøéí
Author    Wolf Pascheles
City    Prague
Publisher    Freund
Publication Date    1860
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [4], 252 pp. octavo 223:130 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   Judeo-German collection of ten tales and biographies by Wolf Pascheles. Among the contents are Gabriel; Don Isaac Abrabanel; Napolein and the Ba’al Shem Tov; and the life of R. Saadiah Gaon. The text is in a single column in Vaybertaytsh.

Wolf Pascheles (Ze’ev, 1814–1857), author, publisher, and bookseller. Born in Prague, Pascheles published - while in his teens - Deutsche Gebete fuer Frauen (1828) of which several editions appeared under various titles. With the money earned on the first edition, he opened the first Jewish bookstore in Prague. He wrote a biography of Solomon Heine together with one of the Viennese merchant Herrmann Tedesco (1845). In 1857 he edited and published E. Bondi's Mikhtevei Sefat Kodesh, a Hebrew chrestomathy (including biographies of famous Jews) with interlinear German translation. Pascheles' great success were his collections of legends and biographies, medieval and modern, under the title Sippurim (1846/47) which went through many editions. Among the contributors were I. M. Jost, Solomon Kohn, R. J. Fuerstenthal, and S. J. Kaempf. A popular edition was published (1888, 19093) by his son-in-law Jacob Brandeis. Adaptations of the Sippurim were prepared by S. Schmitz (1921, 1926) and H. Pollitzer (Die goldene Gasse, 1937) as well as a selection and translation into English by C. Field (Jewish Legends..., n.d.). Pascheles' miniature Pentateuch, with German translation by H. Arnheim, and his Illustrierter israelitischer Volkskalender, which appeared from 1860 to 1935, was also popular. He also published a popular series called Juedische Universal-Bibliothek, which included works on Jewish history, biographies, and contemporary events. After Pascheles' death these were edited by his son Jacob and his son-in-law, J. Brandeis, who continued the book-selling and publishing firm (catalogs appeared 1879–94).

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Bohemia
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
Language:    Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica