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Lot #    23602
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 11:04:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Neginot Bat Yehudah
Title (Hebrew)    נגינות בת יהודה
Author    [Only Ed.] Isaac Rabinowitz
City    New York
Publisher    Grover Bros.
Publication Date    1896
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. Portrait, VIII, 148 pp., 220L:140 mm., light age and damp staining. A good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Contains poems that Rabinowitz wrote in Europe and America during a period of ten years. Isaac b. Mordecai Rabinowitz was born in 1846 in Kovno. In his youth he composed poetry and was a student of Abraham Mapu. He later studied with rabbis in neigh­boring towns. After his marriage in 1867 he moved to Telz, where he engaged in business and associated with Judah Leib Gordon. He moved to Ukmerge in 1889 and he immigrated to New York in 1891. Rabinowitz had contributed to Hebrew periodicals in Europe and he translated novels into Yiddish in America. According to some estimations, he was one "of the leading writers" of poetry in his time. Specifically, he was "indisputably the foremost Neo-Hebraic poet of America ... [and] his best work was done in America" (Drachman, 71; Waxman, 4:1050). Another view, however, maintains that "those [poems] written after his arrival in the United States fall below the standard of his former productions" (IE; also see Kabakoff [1966], 287n39). Despite the assistance given to him by Israel Fine, Rabinowitz lived in poverty in America and he could not even collect enough money to publish his last work.
          
Paragraph 2    קבצת שירים שונים בשפת עבר, מאת יצחק בן מרדכי ראבינאוויץ >איש קאוונא<. יוצא לאור על ידי אגדת אנשים אוהבי השירה העברית בניו יארק. ספר א.

עמ' VI - VII: למנצח בנגינות בת-יהודה, מאת דר' שלמה מאנדעלקארן.

          
Reference
Description		    HPA 416; Singerman 4902; Deinard 569; CD-EPI 0166168
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica