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Lot #    24905
Auction End Date    10/27/2009 10:36:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ha-Signon ha-Ivri, Part II
Title (Hebrew)    הסגנון העברי
Author    [First Ed.] Magnus Jacob Krinskii
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Krinskii
Publication Date    1912
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 963 pp. quarto 235:160 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy loose in contemporary boards, split.
          
Detailed
Description		    First edition of this encyclopedic, multipart overview, and pedagogical textbook on Jewish literature by Magnus Jacob ben Joseph Benjamin Krinskii (Krinsky). This large volume is part two, part oen having been printed several years earlier, is divided into five parts, each subdivided into numerous sections and within each section several, often detailed entries. The first section on hashkafa encompasses biblical books, Talmud and aggadah, the middle ages, the rabbinate and hassidim, the enlightenment, and theiyah, that is, the modern period and the revival of Hebrew literature. Each of these subjects has several entries. The second part is on science has six subsections and includes man, the people, education, and nature. Next is literature with three sections, including stories, humor, parody, and mimicry. The next two parts, each with two sections, are on autobiography and biography and on history. The text is accompanied with portraits of subjects and writers.

Magnus Jacob ben Joseph Benjamin Krinskii (Krinsky) was both a teacher and school principal. He published a series of books titled Bikher far Ale (books for all). He also wrote, in addition to Ha-Signon ha-Ivri, other Hebrew textbooks, some republished several times, including Reshit daat sefath eber, which was published for the twenty-fifth time in New York (1925). Krinskii was also the other of several books in Yiddish on Jewish literature.

          
Paragraph 2    קורס גבה ללמוד השפה העברית וספרותה. ערוך ע"י מ. קרינסקי... חלק א-ב.

כל שמות המדפיסים שבספר והשער הנוסף שבחלק ב, באותיות קיריליות. חלק א: [בהשתתפות יצחק אליעזר ליזרוביץ] הוא חלק השירי... מבחרי היצירות הפיוטיות מן התנ"ך והתלמוד והמדרשים, מאגדות העם ומשיריו ...וגם ממבחרי הספרות האירופיאות. תר"ע, 1909. 904 עמודות. חלק ב: בהשתתפות י[עקב] פיכמן... הוא חלק הפרוזאי... השקפות וכרקטריסטיקאות, מאמרי מחקר ומדע, פיליטונים, ספורים הומוריסטים, פרדיות וחקויים, אוטוביוגרפיות, ביוגרפיות, מכתבים ספרותיים, פרקי הסטוריה ורשמי מסע. ([נסדר ב]דפוס Krinskii .O .M ונדפס בדפוס Syrkin .G .A), תרע"ב. 964 עמודות. Added t. p.: Gasignon Goivri; literaturiaya khrestomatiya ... chast vtoraya. Sostavil M. Krinskii ...

          
Reference
Description		    BE somah 27; Yivo Encyc. of Jews in Eastern Europe 1:323; CD-EPI 0165243
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias:    Checked
  
Characteristic
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica