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Lot #    17918
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:30:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The history of Yiddish literature in the
Title (Hebrew)    nineteenth century
Author    [First Ed.] Leo Wiener
City    New York
Publisher    Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication Date    1899
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Cloth, 8vo. Xv, 402 pages. Scuffed boards, spine tight; interior in very good condition.
          
Detailed
Description		    This work is divided into two sections: chapters dealing with the various genres, periods, and geographical divisions of Yiddish literature, and a chrestomathy (anthology) of specific Yiddish writers. Two appendices and an index follow. Bibliographical citations. Wiener was a Russian-born philologist who taught Slavic languages at Harvard.
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman 5688
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica