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Bidding Information
Lot #    4340
Auction End Date    4/1/2003 5:24:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Psalms
Title (Hebrew)    תהלים
Author    [Miniature]
City    Berlin
Publisher    Travich
Publication Date    1874
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    173 p., 32 mo., 90:59 mm., usual browning. A crisp copy loose in the original cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Psalms edited by Letterus.
          
Detailed
Description		    Max (Meir) Letteris (1807-1871) was a famous Hebrew poet, writer, and editor. In spite of fame, professional recognition, public honors, and numerous editions of several of his works, he struggled financially all his life, holding jobs as copyreader in different printing houses and lecturing, publishing periodicals, selling subscriptions, writing occasional poems, and, for some time, even receiving charity. In the course of his work as a copyreader in Vienna, Pressburg, and Prague, he edited important reprints and first editions, to which he added notes, explanations, and biographies. Another undertaking, the editing of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament for the British and Foreign Bible Society of London (1852), damaged his reputation among Jews. It was perhaps his most lasting achievement, however, as it resulted in innumerable editions of the "Letteris Bible." Letteris was a true exponent of the Haskalah, a mediator between Jewish and Western cultures.
          
Paragraph 2    מדויק היטב על פי המסורה... על ידי מאיר הלוי לעטעריס
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0202490
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Miniatures:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica