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Lot #
20409
Auction End Date
4/1/2008 12:18:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Beit Asher
Title (Hebrew)
áéú àùø
Author
R. Asher Zelig ben Jacob Zevi Schwartz
City
Mukacevo
Publisher
Graphia
Publication Date
1936
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
First complete edition. [4], 132 [2] ff. octavo 235:185 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy loose in contemporary boards, rubbed and taped. Unrecorded in CD-EPI.
Detailed
Description
Rare first complete edition of these homilies on Bereshit and Shemot by R. Asher Zelig ben Jacob Zevi Schwartz. Beit Asher has two title pages, the first, briefly stating the name and subject of the book within a pillared frame, the title in red ink, followed, on the verso, by verse in two columns in which the initial letters of both columns is an acrostic of the author’s name. The second, more detailed title page, describes Beit Asher, beginning “I have surely built a house” (I Kings 8:13) and continuing describing it as buds and flowers of peshat (literal meanings) and remez (allusions) via discourses. The verso of this title page has the names of the financiers who assisted in publication, followed by R. Schwartz’s introduction and then the text, all in two columns. At the end are R. Schwartz’s commentary on Megillat Esther, and a second individuals whose assistance made publication possible, and errata. The first edition of Beit Asher (Kleinwardein, 1927) was, as described by the Jewish National and University Library as consisting of 86 ff.
Reference
Description
Kohen, Sages of Hungary, p. 514.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Other:
Hungary
Subject
Bible:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
