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Lot #    23945
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 10:34:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ir Vilna
Title (Hebrew)    עיר ווילנא
Author    [Only Ed.] Hillel Noah Maggid-Steinschneider
City    Vilna
Publisher    Widow & Brothers Rom
Publication Date    1900
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. XIV, [2], 304 pp., 225:154 mm., nice margins, stamps, nice margins. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hillel Noah Maggid-Steinschneider (1829–1903), Hebrew scholar and writer. Maggid-Steinschneider, born in Vilna, owed the first part of his name to his grandfather Phinehas, who was Maggid in Vilna, and the second part to his profession, stonemasonry (Steinschneider). He also was a bookdealer. As a stonemason he often composed tombstone inscriptions, which led to an interest in and research about the lives of well-known Vilna families and personalities, particularly those buried in the old and new cemeteries of the town. He published Ir Vilna (part 1 only, 1900), a biographical work containing hundreds of biographies of famous Vilna personalities. Maggid also assisted S.J. Fuenn in collecting material for his history of Vilna Jewry, Kiryah Ne'emanah (1860), and also prepared its second edition with numerous additions and a biography of the author (1915). He wrote a history of the Guenzburg family completed by his son (Toledot Mishpehot Guenzburg, 1899) and a biography of David Oppenheim (in Y. ben Hayyim Mezah (ed.), Gan Perahim, 1882); with his father-in-law J. Gordon he composed a Thousand Year Calendar, Lu'ah al Elef Shanim (1854).

Maggid contributed numerous biographical and genealogical articles to Hebrew periodicals, such as Ha-Shahar, Ha-Karmel, and Ha-Maggid. He was put in charge of the Straschun and S.J. Fuenn libraries when they were given to the Vilna community. Maggid's biographical and bibliographical research, much of which remained unpublished, was of importance, though like other works of the transitory period from old to modern scholarship, his writings lacked organization and literary form.
          
Paragraph 2    זכרונות עדת ישראל ותולדות חיי גדוליה... גדולי התורה וההלכה... גדולי ההשכלה והמדע... בשפתנו... ובשפות העמים, מורים, רופאים ודומיהם; גדולי המעשה - הפרנסים, מנהיגי קהלתנו ובעלי הצדקה וגם גדולי היחש... אספתי סדרתי וערכתי לדפוס... אנכי הלל נח מגיד המכונה שטיינשניידער. חלק א...

שער נוסף, באותיות קיריליות: Ir Vilna. Material k istorii Vilenskoi Evreiskoi obshchiny ... Sobral i sostavil Gilel Noakh Maggid . Chast pervaya ... החלק השני יצא לאור (בחלקו) בירושלים תשס"ג. החלק השלישי לא נדפס.

          
Reference
Description		    Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 314ff.; EJ; CD-EPI 0146167
        
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Listing Classification
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica