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Bidding Information
Lot #    25195
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 10:39:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Goren Shlomo
Title (Hebrew)    גרן שלמה
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Solomon Zevi Marcus
City    Brooklyn, New York
Publisher    A. N. Meirowitz
Publication Date    1912
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [8], 8-43 pp., 200:149 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy not bound.
          
Paragraph 1    First Hebrew homiletics book printed in Brooklyn, New York. The printer, A. N. Meirowitz of 267 Dumont Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn is not recorded with any other imprints.
          
Detailed
Description		    Fifteen homilies on Bible and Midrash by R. Solomon Zevi b. Shemaye Marcus. R. Marcus's grandfather was a rabbi in Zamut, Kovno Province, and his father was the rabbi of Rozhanka, Vilna Province (Byelorussia). R. Marcus himself served as a rabbi in Rozhanka for 47 years. We find him in Bayonne, Cleveland, and in Brownsville (Brooklyn). Goren Shlomo was printed in Brownsville and it is clear from the approbations that Brownsville and New York rabbis knew him. R. Marcus lived a life of poverty in America.

In the first homily Marcus contrasts Jewish life in America and in Europe and laments the low level of observance in a free society as compared with the high level in Europe. The preface contains family information. R. Marcus hoped to publish additional volumes (p. [6]), but none are recorded.
          
Paragraph 2    חלק ראשון. כולל דרשות ובאורים על התורה ועל מאמרי חז"ל... ממני... שלמה צבי בהרב שמעיה מארקוס זצ"ל...

לא נדפס יותר? הסכמות: ר' משה חיים ב"ר צבי נחום ראבינאוויץ, בראנזווילל, ה תמוז תרע"ב; ר' יצחק זאב ווענדראווסקי, נויארק, ד תמוז תרע"ב; ר' אברהם נחום מייעראוויץ, בראנזווילל, י תמוז תרע"ב.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0146074; HPA 746; Deinard 115
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica