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Malteoth Kefirim |
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מלתעות כפירים |
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[Unrecorded] Levi Reuven Simlin |
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Calcutta |
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Solomon Tavina |
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1897 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Physical
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72; 162; 195 pp. octavo 155:115 mm. , edges frayed. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed. Unrecorded in bibliographies. |
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Detailed
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Judeo-Arabic translation of the recounting of a medieval tale by Levi Reuven Simlin (Zimlin). The tale recounted in Malteoth Kefirim is from the Middle Ages and deals with a terrible murderer who spills the blood of young children like water. It is freely translated by Solomon Tavina in Bagdad and is now printed in India.
Levi Reuven Simlin was a noted parodist. He is best known for his Hagadah la-Melandim, a humourous paradoy in the form of a Pesah Haggadah. Professionally he was a teacher in Odessa.
Two other works are bound with Malteoth Kefirim. The second lacks a title page and the third has the heading Emek ha-Arzim. Both these books are printed with the same type as Malteoth Kefirim,so that they too are likely nineteenth century Calcutta imprints. Emek ha-Arzim is a popular tale of the life of Marranos in Spain by G. Agilar. Although several editions of this work are recorded no mention is made in bibliographic sources of a Calcutta edition. |
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בו יספר רצח נורא אשר עולל נסיך אחד לשפך דמי ילדיו כמים, בשנות הבינים, יסודתו בשפת העמים, ונעתק העתקה חפשית ע"י לוי ראובן זימלין ... |
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BE mem 2115 ayin 885; Yaari Mizrah p. 45 no. 101; W. Zeitlin, Bibliotheca Hebraica p. 336. |
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