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Lot #    23260
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 11:24:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Megilat Puraniyot
Title (Hebrew)    מגלת פורעניות
Author    [Only Ed. - Community] R. Abraham Asher Feinstein
City    Tel Aviv
Publisher    ha-Erez
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 207, [2, 1 photo] pp. octavo 215:165 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed, split, no spine.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of this work on the atrocities against the Jews in Pinsk and the surrounding regions during World War I by R. Abraham Asher ben Aryeh David Feinstein. The front cover has a depiction of a tombstone and within it the phrase God . . . the spilled blood of His servants. Megilat Puraniyot Is dedicated to the author’s father, Aryeh David ben Abraham Hayyim (d. 3 Tevet, 1904) and his mother, Pearl bat Israel (d. 12 Nissin, 1883). The book begins with an introduction, in which R. Feinstein informs that he has only recorded the most important occurrences that require remembrance by future generations. The text is comprised of fifty-three chapters detailing the events that befell the Jews in Pinsk and the surrounding areas during World War I. There is a collage of photographs of the Jews murdered in the aftermath of WW I, when, during the initial period of Polish rule after World War I, on April 5, 1919, the Poles executed 35 prominent Jews following a framed-up charge against them; a facsimile of a letter signed by the rabbis of Karalin Pinsk. The volume concludes with errata. Megilat Puraniyot is an unusually detailed and moving account of events not well remembered today, overshadowed by later atrocities.

R. Abraham Asher ben Aryeh David Feinstein (1870-1944) was born in Pinsk, going up to Erez Israel in 1924. He was also the author of Mai Hanukah: Agah li-yeladim (Tel Aviv, 1933).
          
Paragraph 2    זכרונות על מאורעות פינסק וחבל פוליסיה בשנות המלחמה העולמית, מאת אברהם אשר פינשטין...
          
Reference
Description		    BE mem 574; CD-EPI 0157656
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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