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Lot #		19969
Auction End Date		2/19/2008 11:03:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Hebrew Reader for Beginners

Title (Hebrew)

שפת משה

Author

R. Victor Schonfeld

City

London

Publisher

M. L. Cailingold

Publication Date

1937

Collection Information

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Description Information

Physical
Description

128 pp. octavo 180:124 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.

Detailed
Description

Highly popular introductory Hebrew reader book by Rabbi Dr. Victor Schonfeld. Described on the title page as Vol. 1 with suggestions for the teacher, it is a revised edition. The verso of the title page lists the copies sold of the earlier editions, totaling 42,000 copies. A second title page with a decorative frame of the faces of rabbis over the ages gives the figures 43rd-48th thousand. There is an introduction which begins “A great educationalists once remarked: ‘Governing the teacher’s whole design of instruction should be the aim of calling forth, by some means or other, in every pupil, a sense of pleasurable activity and of creation; he should resist being made a mere ladder of information.’” Hebrew Reader for Beginners is organized with that principle in mind, accounting for its popularity and success as an introductory reader. R. Victor Schonfeld, (1880–1930), English rabbi and educator. Schonfeld was born in Hungary. He served as rabbi of the Montefiore Society in Vienna until 1909, when he went to the North London Beth Hamidrash, which became the Adath Yisrael Synagogue in 1911. In 1920 Schonfeld took up an invitation to become head of the Mizrachi schools in Ereẓ Israel; dissatisfied with conditions, he returned to his former post two years later. In 1927 he founded the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in England, and in 1929 he established the Jewish Secondary Schools Movement. Schonfeld was an outstanding preacher and teacher, wielding great influence beyond the confines of his congregation, partly through the youth society, Ben Zakkai, which he founded. Apart from publishing a number of textbooks for religious schools, a volume of his sermons and essays was published posthumously by his son Solomon (Judaism as Life's Purpose, 1930; a shorter edition Life's Purpose, 1956).

Title: Hebrew Reader for beginners ... with suggestions for the teacher by the late Rabbi Dr. V[ictor] Schonfeld... Ninth revised edition. 43rd-48th thousand. Vol. 1.

Paragraph 2

שני שערים. שמו של המו"ל רק בשער השני. מעבר לשער הראשון נימנו הוצאות הספר: 1920 (5000 טפסים), 1921 (5000 טפסים), 1925 (5000 טפסים), 1927 (6000 טפסים), 1928 (5000 טפסים), 1929 (8000 טפסים), 1932 (3000 טפסים), 1934 (5000 טפסים). עמ' 8: הקדמה להוצאה הנכחית. נאמר כאן שהוצאה זו ממוקנת ומשופרת. מעבר לשער הראשון נאמר שבהוצאה זו יצא גם חלק II. נדפס כמו הוצאת London תרצ"ב. רוב התמונות נשמטו וניתנו כאן חדשות.

Reference
Description

EJ; CD-EPI 0330354

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