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Bidding Information
Lot #    24773
Auction End Date    9/22/2009 11:57:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ha-Madpiss Daniel Bomberg
Title (Hebrew)    המדפיס דניאל בומבירגי
Author    [Bibliography] Abraham Habermann
City    Safed
Publisher    Museum of Printing Art
Publication Date    1978
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 100, [3] pp., 235:167 mm., quarto, clean crisp copy, bound in the original boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Abraham Meir Habermann (1901–1980), bibliographer and scholar of medieval Hebrew literature. Born at Zurawno (Galicia), Habermann from 1928 was librarian at the Schocken Library in Berlin. He immigrated to Palestine in 1934 and served as director of the Schocken Library in Jerusalem until 1967. From 1957 he taught medieval literature at Tel Aviv University (professor, 1969) and taught at the Graduate Library School of the Hebrew University. He was editor of the department of bibliography (Jewish printers) for the Encyclopaedia Hebraica, and the department of medieval Hebrew poetry for the Encyclopaedia Judaica. Habermann began his study of medieval literature in 1925, specializing in the Ashkenazi piyyut from the time of R. Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn. A prolific writer who is responsible for over 100 titles.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Israel:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica