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Bidding Information
Lot #    21487
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 1:12:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer Emet
Title (Hebrew)    ספר אמת
Author    [Only Ed.] R. E. Russoff
City    New York
Publisher    The Friedman Press
Publication Date    1949
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 62, [3] pp., 179:145 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    A volume in Yiddish on Jewish ethics by R. Eliyahu b. Isiahyahu ha-Levy Russoff (b. 1882), who is also the author of Sefer Yad Eliyahu (New York, 1947), Sefer Minhat Eliyahu (New York, 1952) Kise Eliyahu (Bronx, NY 1955) and 'Ugat Eliahu (New York, 1960), a volume of responsa.

The last three pages of this book are actually glued into the volume. The last two are labelled "מכתב" and include an approbation from R. Mordecai Schochetman.

          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica