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Only edition of this two-part work by the noted bibliographer Ephraim Deinard. The first and larger part is Zimrot am ha-Eretz, a manuscript by Benjamin of Shḳlov, a Talmud of the Vilna Gaon, attacking Hassidim and the Hassidic movement. Included are correspondence and condemnations of Hassidus. Zimrot am ha-Eretz is preceded by an introduction by Deinard. The second part of Kitot be-Yisrael is Shomre Shabbat" be-Ḳaṿḳaz by Deinard against the Sabbotnikim, apparently the first such work in Russia. The Sabbotnikim were (are) an ethic group in Russia which practices a number of mitzvot. The origins of the Sabbotnikim are obscure. In the 19th and 20th centuries they were not considered Jewish by the Russian Rabbinate.
Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) was a bibliographer and Hebrew author. 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, Ḥasidism, Christianity, and Karaism. Deinard was a prolific Hebrew writer, producing more than 50 books and pamphlets often signed with his pseudonym, Adir. These included Toledot Even Reshef (1879; a biography of Abraham Firkovich , whom he knew in the Crimea); Sefer Massa Krim (1878; on travels in Crimea); Massale-Eretz Kedem (1883; travels in Palestine and Egypt); Sefer Miflagot be-Yisrael (1899; on the Subbotniki and Ḥasidim); Zikhronot Bat Ammi (1920; a history of Russian Jewry over the previous 70 years). He also published several short-lived Hebrew and Yiddish journals, among them Ha-Le'ummi, one of the earliest Hebrew periodicals in America |
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לקורות ישראל ברוסיא כולל ס' זמרת עם הארץ, נעתק מכ"י הגאון ר' בנימין [ריבלין] משקלאוו תלמיד הגר"א ז"ל. ומאמר ע"ד כת "שומרי שבת" בק-קז, מאת אפרים דיינארד ...
25 עמ', עם שער מיוחד: לקורות ישראל ברוסיא. א. זמרת עם הארץ ... יצא לאור בפעם הראשונה ... נויארק תרנ"ו ...
8 עמ': כת השובתים או שומרי שבת <סובאטניקי> בלב רוסיא וקו-קז ...
"זמרת עם הארץ" והמאמר על הסובוטניקים נדפסו גם בספרו מפלגות בישראל, נויארק תרנ"ט. |
