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Bidding Information
Lot #    4613
Auction End Date    5/14/2003 1:12:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sherei Ha'Techia
Title (Hebrew)    שירי התחיה
Author    [Zionist Songs]
City    Baghdad
Publisher    Elisha Shochat
Publication Date    1925
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [4], 40, 28, 24 p., 8 vo., 156:105 mm., clean copy in paper wrappers.
          
Paragraph 1    First edition.
          
Detailed
Description		    Collection of Zionist songs including Ha'Tikveh. NAHUM, AARON SASSON BEN ELIJAH (c. 1872–1962), educator and communal worker in Iraq. From 1920 he was chairman of the Zionist Organization in Iraq; his Zionist work was done underground because of Iraqi persecution of the Zionist movement. In 1920 he helped found a Hebrew Literary Society in Baghdad. He was the founder and, from 1924 to 1935, director of Pardes Yeladim, a school which fostered the use of Hebrew. In 1935 he settled in Palestine, where he continued to work as an educator. In 1920 he founded a Hebrew-Arab weekly in Baghdad, Yeshurun, of which only five numbers appeared. Under the pseudonym of "Ha-Moreh," he published a book of poems, Sefer Shirei ha-Tehiyyah, containing translations and original works (2 parts, 1925; part 3 in 1931). His poems express his longing for Zion. In Palestine he also published a number of booklets, in which he appealed for religious observance.
          
Reference
Description		    Yaari, Baghdad 251 (lacking final collation)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Iraq
  
Subject
Music:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica