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Lot #    26288
Auction End Date    3/23/2010 11:22:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Herpat Britanya
Title (Hebrew)    חרפת בריטניה
Author    [Polemic - Only Ed.] Ephraim Deinard
City    New York
Publisher    Oriem
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 149, [2] pp., 228:150 mm., usual light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Anti-British polemic for its actions in Palestine and against the Jews. Ephraim Deinard, (1846–1930), bibliographer and Hebrew author was 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, Hasidism, Christianity, and Karaism. Deinard was a prolific Hebrew writer, producing more than 50 books and pamphlets often signed with his pseudonym, Adir.
          
Paragraph 2    כתם שחור ... על מצח בריטניה, בהונותה אל ישראל לגזול ממנו את ... >ארץ ישראל< על ידי מרמה דיפלומטית ... מאת אפרים דיינארד ...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0125887; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica