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Lot #    26343
Auction End Date    3/23/2010 11:49:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Autobiografia
Title (Hebrew)    אווטאביאגרא
Author    Aron Isaks
City    Berlin
Publisher    Klal-Verlag
Publication Date    1922
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    117, [1] pp. port., facsims, 217:161 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original title wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    A Yiddish translation (by Nakhum Shtif) of the autobiography of Aaron (Aron) Isaac (Isak) ( 1730–1816), founder of the Jewish community in Sweden. Born in Treuenbrietzen, a small city in the Duchy of Mecklenburg, Isaac started his career as a peddler at the age of 18. Yielding to an artistic impulse, he taught himself seal-engraving, achieved some success in this craft, and settled in Buetzow. During the Seven Years' War (1756–63) he did business with the Prussian and later the Swedish armies. Learning from the Swedish soldiers that there were no seal-engravers in Sweden, Isaac decided to settle in that country, although no Jew had lived there previously. When he arrived in Stockholm in June 1774 after a difficult journey, he was informed that permission to settle would be granted only if he accepted baptism. This he refused to do, and petitioned the king whom he impressed by his sobriety and persistence. His request was granted and Isaac, his brother, and his partner in Germany, with their families, received permission to settle in Stockholm. After these early struggles the settlement began to flourish, Isaac remaining head of the Stockholm community for many years. His memoirs in Yiddish, completed in 1804 with an introduction in Hebrew, Sjelfbiografi (1897), are important not only historically but also for Yiddish philology and have been frequently republished.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
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Characteristic
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica