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Lot #    25565
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 10:53:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Asmodeus
Title (Hebrew)    אשמדאי
Author    [Only Ed.] Abba Isaac Bukh
City    New York
Publisher    A. H. Rosenberg
Publication Date    1911
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 98, 3, [3] pp. plus wrapper (bound in), 211:144 mm., light age staining, stamps, nice margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Abba Isaac Bukh was born in Kovno (Kaunas) in 1851. In addition to receiving a traditional education, he also studied Hebrew, German and Russian (p. 8). Bukh immigrated to America and settled in Louisville, KY. Mter a success­ful stint as a merchant, he became a teacher in a Hebrew school and devoted his leisure time to his studies (p. 4).

This play about Solomon and Jeroboam incor­porates the suggestion of Bukh's friend that Jeroboam be identified with the legendary Asmodeus, king of the demons. Dismayed that few ancient sources on the period remained extant, Bukh based this work on all extant sources (i.e., the Bible, Talmud and Midrash). Bukh authored it in a style that he considered to be the one spoken during the prophetic period (p. 8). The end­notes deal with his choice of language and idiomatic usage (pp. 1-3). Appended is an advertisement for his work Yisrael (New York 1911-12), with a description of its contents (pp. [2-3]).

          
Paragraph 2    או פשע ירבעם בן נבט במלך שלמה, בשנים עשר מחזות, יתאר את כל דבר הקשר אשר קשר ירבעם על שלמה, ואשר השלך ממלכותו אל ארץ גזרה, עדי הושב על כסאו בבראשונה, על טהרת שפת קדש, מאת ... א. י. בוך ...

עם "מכתבי תהלה" [הסכמות], מאת: אהרן מרדכי הלוי אשינסקי, פיטסבורג; שמואל אליהו עלקין, סוימה באלטימאר.

          
Reference
Description		    Deinard 69; HPA 455; CD-EPI 0121725
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Other:    Literature
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica