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Bidding Information
Lot #    20970
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 11:24:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shir HaShirim: komentaryele ikerzetsung
Title (Hebrew)    שיר השירים
Author    H. Hirsch
City    Montreal
Publisher    Eagle Publishing CO. Limited
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    31 pp., oblong, 280:120 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Among the earliest known Canadian publications of Yiddish verse, this Yiddish translation of the Song of Songs by H. Hirsch was published in Montreal by Eagle Publishing Co. However, the Yiddish on the title page designates the publisher as Ferlag "Canada".

The first version of this work, entitled 100 tropns tint (100 drops of ink), was published in Toronto in l9l7.

          
Reference
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica