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Lot #
4009
Auction End Date
3/11/2003 12:02:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Hamizpeh
Title (Hebrew)
המצפה
Author
[Zionism - Periodical]
City
Cracow
Publication Date
1908-1910
Collection Information
Independent Item
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Description Information
Physical
Description
375:280 mm., folio, usual browning, in three binders housed in two matching modern brown cloth slip cases with ties.
Paragraph 1
Issues 1-52 of 1907; 20-51 of 1908-09; 16-32 of 1908; 1-32 of 1909-10.
Detailed
Description
A Hebrew weekly newspaper appearing in Cracow from 1904 to 1921 (with intervals during World War I), Ha-Mizpeh was edited by Simon Menahem Laser. Laser, the last editor of Ha-Maggid which ceased publication in 1903, wanted to maintain the Hebrew press in Galicia. His new paper had a religious Zionist orientation and was the faithful organ, without official status, of the Mizrachi movement. At the same time it fought the opponents of Zionism, including both Hasidim and assimilationists. Ha-Mizpeh reached its highest popularity at the time of the elections for the Austrian parliament, when it fought with extraordinary vigor the government-approved anti-Zionist pact between assimilationists and the hasidic rabbis. The paper also combated negative manifestations in the Zionist movement. Laser encouraged literary talents in Galicia. He discovered S. Y. Agnon (then still known as Czaczkes), Avigdor Hameiri, U. Z. Greenberg, and many others who later became famous in Hebrew literature. Apart from Laser's journalistic pieces, the paper published studies, poems, stories, essays, feuilletons, and a humorous section for Purim. It was maintained throughout the years by Laser's efforts and without any subvention, even during World War I when he revived the paper after it had been forced to close. Laser was among the few who understood the nature of the Bolshevik regime's attitude toward the Jews, the problematic nature of the Balfour Declaration, and other political issues.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Russia-Poland:
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Subject
Other:
Zionism
Characteristic
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Language:
Hebrew
Other:
Periodical
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
