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Lot #    22728
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 11:51:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Heshbon Kollel America
Title (Hebrew)    חשבון כולל אמריקה
Author    [Community - Polemic] [Judah David Eisenstein]
City    New York
Publisher    A. H. Rosenberg
Publication Date    1898
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 18 pp., 208:140 mm., light age staining, some chipping. A good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    First of two issued by Eisenstein to refute critics of his management of the funds. Judah David Eisenstein (1854–1956), U.S. encyclopedist, anthologist, and author. Eisenstein was born in Mezhirech, Poland, and in 1872 emigrated to the United States, where he became a successful coat manufacturer. He was a founder of the first Hebrew society in the United States, Shoharei Sefat Ever (1880), and one of its first Hebrew writers. Although he also undertook translations, e.g., in 1891 publishing the text of the American constitution in Hebrew and Yiddish, his fame rests on his anthologies, for which he earned the epithet "master of treasuries" (as all his anthologies bore the title Ozar, "treasury"). He published a Jewish encyclopedia in ten volumes with the assistance of experts from various countries, Ozar Yisrael (1907–13). His other anthologies include: Ozar Midrashim (2 vols., 1915); Ozar Dinim u-Minhagim (1917, "Laws and Customs"); Ozar Derushim Nivharim (1918, "Selected Homilies"); Ozar Derashot (1919, "Sermons"); Ozar Perushim ve-Ziyyurim al Haggadah shel Pesah (.1920), on the Haggadah; Ozar Massa'ot (1926), anthology of Jewish travel literature; Ozar Ma'amrei Tanakh (1925), a biblical concordance; Ozar Ma'amrei Hazal (1922), rabbinic aphorisms; Ozar Vikkuhim (1928), disputations; Ozar Musar u-Middot (1941), on ethics and morals.

Eisenstein was the author of Ma'amrei Bikkoret (1897), a criticism of Rodkinson's translation of the Talmud; History of the First Russian American Jewish Congregation (1901); Development of the Jewish Casuistic Literature in America (1904); and other works. Eisenstein's Commentary on the Torah, edited by B. D. Perlow and I. Eisenstein, was published posthumously (1960). His autobiography and memoirs, Ozar Zikhronotai (1929), includes a bibliography of his articles.

          
Paragraph 2    (תפארת ירושלים) מעת הוסדו ([העורך] י"ד [יהודה דוד] אייזענשטיין) ... חוברת א-ב.

השם "תפארת ירושלים" אינו נזכר בשער חוברת א. בשער-המעטפת של חוברת ב: the congregation American the of N.2 Report pride of Jerusalem ... בפתיחה לחוברת א מבקר העורך את שיטות ההתרמה והחלוקה של נציגי וועד הכללי באמריקה, ש"כולל אמריקה" הוקם כנגדם. חוברת א: עד טו אדר שנת התרנ"ח. תרנ"ח. 18 עמ'. חוברת ב: עד טו אדר שנת תרנ"ט. תרנ"ט. 19, [1] עמ'.

          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0137406; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
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America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica