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Bidding Information
Lot #    20523
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 10:05:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Mesehet Shturot
Title (Hebrew)    מסכת שטרות
Author    [Parody] [Abraham Abel Rakowski]
City    Warsaw
Publication Date    1894
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 47, [1] pp., 8vo., 205:133 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    A satire, in the form of a Talmudic treatise, on brokers and merchants, describing all the subterfuges used by them in accumulating wealth.

Abraham Abel Rakowski b. R. Azriel Aryeh Rakovski (1855-1921) was born in Kapsukas, Lita. His father was rabbi of Plock for seventeen years, which he resigned in 1880, and was considered an extremely long one for a community that frequently changed its rabbis during the nineteenth century. Rakowski died in Zambrow a suburb of Bialystok.

          
Paragraph 2    עם פירוש הקונדס, תוספות גידולי-שביעית, הגהת עשרי וחידושי הרב אל-פת ז"ל. נמצא בכתב יד ישן נושן בבית עקד-הספרים של אחד מתגרי-לוד, ויצא לאור לתועלת סוחרים ואנשי מעשה. ע"י זעירא דמן חברייא לא סייפא ולא ספרא [אברהם אבלי ראקאווסקי]... בשנת ישוטטו רב'י'ם' ותר'ב'ה הדעת'
          
Reference
Description		    Davidson, Studies in Jewish Parody p. 238, # 215 ; CD-EPI 0165884
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Parody:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica