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Bidding Information
Lot #    23874
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 1:20:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Menorat Hamaor
Title (Hebrew)    îðåøú äîàåø
Author    R. Isaac Aboab
City    Vilna
Publisher    Widow & Brothers Rom
Publication Date    1878
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Two volumes, 280:217 mm., wide margins, usual age and damp staining, stamps. A very good set bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    With commentary Nefesh Yehudah by R. Moses b. Simeon Frankfurt and a full Yiddish translation. A classic work on ethics and morals, Menorat Hamaor (“Candlestick of Light”), is one of the most popular works of religious edification among the Jews in the Middle Ages. Written “for the ignorant and the learned, the foolish and the wise, the young and the old, for men and for women,” the work has enjoyed over 70 editions and printings (1st ed. Constantinople, 1514) and has been translated into Spanish, Ladino, Yiddish, and German. The book became a handbook for preachers and served for public reading in synagogues when no preacher was available.
          
Paragraph 2    ... òí ôéøåù ðôù éäåãä ... åòí äòú÷ä ... òáøé èééèù ... çì÷ à-á.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0105238; EJ; JE
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Women's Literature
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica