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Bidding Information
Lot #    20561
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 10:24:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ben Yisrael
Title (Hebrew)    בן-ישראל
Author    [First Ed.] Zevi Scharfstein
City    New York
Publisher    Alpha Press
Publication Date    c. 1918-19
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Two volumes, 193:124 mm., light age staining, gloss paper. Very good copies bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Educational Hebrew primers by Zevi b. Dov Schardstein (1884–1972), U.S. Hebrew educator, journalist, and publisher. Born in the Dunayevtsy, Ukraine, Scharfstein devoted himself to educational work from 1903. After directing a Hebrew school in Tarnow, Galicia (1900–14), he arrived in the United States in 1914, and two years later became instructor at the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he eventually served as professor of Jewish education until his retirement in 1960.

A prodigious contributor to the Hebrew press, his column in the American Hebrew weekly Hadoar dealt with political and, especially with literary events. From 1907 Scharfstein also published educational texts embracing Hebrew literature, Jewish education, Bible, and Hebrew language.

His historical works as a Jewish educator include Ha-Heder be-Hayyei Ammenu (1943) and Toledot ha-Hinnukh be-Yisrael ba-Dorot ha-Aharonim (5 vols., 1960–66); and his autobiographical works comprise Arba'im Shanah ba-Amerikah (1955–56). Among his contributions to Hebrew lexicography is Ozar ha-Ra'yonot va-ha-Pitgamim (3 vols., 1966). From 1940 Scharfstein was editor of the educational periodical Shevilei ha-Hinnukh.
          
Paragraph 2    א]: ספר מקרא לשנות הלמוד השלישית הרביעית. (דפוס "אלפא", [א]:c1918). [א]: [7], 212, [1] עמ'. ב: פרקי שירה וספרות נבחרים למחלקות העליונות ערוך על ידי צבי שרפשטן. חש"מ, ב:(c1919). ב: [8], 325 עמ'.
          
Reference
Description		    Sefer ha-Yovel li-Khevod Zevi Scharfstein (1955), 7–28 (incl. bibl.); Sefer Scharfstein (1944), 163–231 (incl. bibl.); Sefer Scharfstein (1971); EJ; CD-EPI 0180513
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
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Subject
Children’s Literature:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica