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Lot #    25627
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 11:24:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Work in honor of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore
Title (Hebrew)    חיי משה ויהודית
Author    [Ladino - Only Ed.] Ezra Benveniste
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Abraham Moses Luntz
Publication Date    1886
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. Portrait, 88 pp., 175:110 mm., usual light age staining. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Biography of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore in Ladino by Ezra b. Isaac Benveniste. Sir Moses is best described by Dr. Loewe in the final paragraph of the Sir and Lady's diaries. He sums up the importance and achievements of this historical Jewish couple's efforts for their brethren over the span of the 19th century: "The impartial reader of these Memoirs, in closing the book, and recalling to his mind the varied scenes portraying the life and work of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, and the moral to be derived therefrom, will acknowledge that the practice of justice, truth, and virtue towards his fellow-beings, and staunch loyalty to the Sovereign, will ensure an ample reward. At the same time, he cannot fail to contemplate with intense admiration the life's work of the hero of a hundred years, who fought so sturdily in youth the battle of life, and who afterwards devoted himself with such unwearying ardor to the task of combating hatred, persecution, and fanaticism, of severing the bonds of physical and moral slavery, and of aiding in the establishment of religious toleration all over the world. His unparalleled devotion to the sacred cause of humanity in general, and the unclouded halo of a spotless integrity which encircles his name, will ever afford a splendid example for emulation no less than the dauntless courage with which he set to work for the rescue of the suffering and the oppressed, whilst the bright guiding stars which lighted all his actions were the fear of G-d on high and deeds of charity and loving kindness on earth."
          
Paragraph 2    איסטי ליב'רו ריקונטה לה ביאגראפ'ייא[!] די... משה מונטיפ'יורי אי סו קונפאניירה יהודית (מאת עזרא בנבנישתי)...

"ספר חיי משה ויהודית. והוא ביוגרפיה של השר מונטיפיורי ואשתו יהודית". בלאדינו. עמ' 2: הקדמת המחבר, בה הוא מודיע שהספר נכתב בעברית, בערבית ובלאדינו. ההוצאה העברית יצאה לאור באותה שנה. עמ' 5: הקדשה לכבוד בכור אברהם ונסים קאמונדו מקושטא. עמ' 6: מכתב בשבח הספר מאת ר' משה פארדו, אלכסאנדריה, סיון תרמ"ו (בעברית). עמ 8-7: התנצלות על כתיבת הספר בלאדינו. עמ' 5-1, 8-7 באותיות רש"י והשאר באותיות מרובעות.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0200248
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
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Characteristic
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Language:    Ladino
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica