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Lot #    24171
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 12:25:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Massa
Title (Hebrew)    מסע בחצי האי קרים
Author    [Only Ed.] Ephraim Deinard
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Alexander Ginz
Publication Date    1879-80
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 116; 44 pp., 209:129 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Record of his trip to the Black Sea and enviorns. Ephraim b. Jekuthiel Gershon Deinard, (1846–1930), bibliographer and Hebrew author was born in Sasmakken, Latvia, Deinard wandered in his youth, collecting ancient manuscripts and books in many countries, and then established a bookshop in Odessa. In 1897 he tried unsuccessfully to found an agricultural settlement in Nevada (U.S.). An active Zionist, he settled in Palestine in 1913 where he investigated the possibilities of Jewish settlement. After being expelled by the Turks in 1916 he returned to the United States and continued his bibliographical work. His two most noteworthy bibliographical works are Or Mayer: Catalogue of the Old Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Library of the Hon. Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia (1896) and Koheleth America (1926), a listing of Hebrew books published in America from 1735 to 1926. The first part of the latter work contains essays on the state of Hebrew literature in America, which are written in his unadorned, but typically acerbic, style. He laid the foundations of the Hebrew book and manuscript collections of the Library of Congress with the financial aid of Jacob Schiff. A violent polemicist on many controversial subjects, he attacked Reform Judaism, Hasidism, Christianity, and Karaism. Deinard was a prolific Hebrew writer, producing more than 50 books and pamphlets often signed with his pseudonym, Adir.
          
Paragraph 2    כולל מסעותי ... מלבוא ים השחור עד קצה ים האזאווי וערבת נאגאיסק, כתיבת הערים החדשות והעתיקות למיום בא זכרן, בספרי דברי הימים, תכונת יושביהן ... ומצבם המדיני והמוסרי בכלל ומצב בני ישראל בפדט. ונלוה אליו ציורים מתמונות הערים וההרים, מאת אפרים דיינארד ... חלק [א]-ב.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0125900; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
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Characteristic
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica