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Bidding Information
Lot #    21010
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 11:44:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Atikot Yehudah
Title (Hebrew)    עתיקות יהודה
Author    Ephraim Deinard
Publication Date    20th cent.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    44 pp., 272:215 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Paragraph 1    A later reprint.
          
Detailed
Description		    Bibliographic listing of the most valuable Hebrew books in the world. It is reputed that Deinard only included items that were for sale in his bookstore, nevertheless, the listing does contain very rare items. Ephraim Deinard, (1846–1930), bibliographer and Hebrew author was born in Sasmakken, Latvia, Deinard wandered in his youth, collecting ancient manuscripts and books in many countries, and then established a bookshop in Odessa. In 1897 he tried unsuccessfully to found an agricultural settlement in Nevada (U.S.). An active Zionist, he settled in Palestine in 1913 where he investigated the possibilities of Jewish settlement. After being expelled by the Turks in 1916 he returned to the United States and continued his bibliographical work. His two most noteworthy bibliographical works are Or Mayer: Catalogue of the Old Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Library of the Hon. Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia (1896) and Koheleth America (1926), a listing of Hebrew books published in America from 1735 to 1926. The first part of the latter work contains essays on the state of Hebrew literature in America, which are written in his unadorned, but typically acerbic, style. He laid the foundations of the Hebrew book and manuscript collections of the Library of Congress with the financial aid of Jacob Schiff. A violent polemicist on many controversial subjects, he attacked Reform Judaism, Hasidism, Christianity, and Karaism. Deinard was a prolific Hebrew writer, producing more than 50 books and pamphlets often signed with his pseudonym, Adir.
          
Paragraph 2    מחלקה שניה. כל הספרים בספרת ישראל שנדפסו אחרי שנת ר"ס היקרים במציאות בכל הזמנים ... ואשר מצאתי או ראיתי בכל מסעותי בתבל. ובראשו רשימת כל הדפוסים אשר הדפיסו ספרי ישראל בכל העולם משנת רל"ה עד היום, מאת אפרים דיינארד ... שנת ראינו ר'ע'"ה' בעת מהפכת המלחמה

ב"פתח דבר": "וספרי זה נועד רק למען ידע העם איזה הוא ספר יקר המציאות באמת ... הנני מדפיס את המחלקה השניה ... לפני המחלקה הראשונה המכילה את כל האינקונאבעלן משנת רל"ה עד ר"ס".

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0125909 (first edition of 1915)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
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Subject
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica