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Lot #    6048
Auction End Date    11/18/2003 11:58:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Likitat Yosef
Title (Hebrew)    לקיטת יוםף
Author    [Only ed.] Joseph Yuzpa Hirschfeld
City    Lissa [Leszno]
Publisher    The partners from Dyhernfurth
Publication Date    1824
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [6], 61, [1] pp., quarto, 195:150 mm., light age staining, stamps on fly. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hebrew-Yiddish Dictionary for instructing children in Hebrew by Joseph Yuzpa b. Zevi Hirsch Hirschfeld (d. 1848). The text of the cover is in German and has a device of a stag by a tree. The title page is in Hebrew and states that it is an index for finding one’s desire (object). One language and few words. The introduction begins, “The wise man’s eyes are in his head” (Ecclesiastes 2:14), an understanding scale in his hand, and the roots of understanding branch out in his eyes. He will see that “My heart overflows with a goodly theme” (Psalms 45:2): to teach the young of the children of Israel “a clear language” (Zephaniah 3:9). There is a brief statement from the printer and, in German, a list of the subscribers, organized by city. The title page is dated “‘Cursed be he who removes his neighbor’s landmark ארור מסיג גבול רעהו (584=1824)’ (Deuteronomy 27:17) for fifteen years.”

The text is in two columns. Within each column words are given in Hebrew in square vocalized letters with their explanation in Yiddish set in a mixture of Vaybertaytsh and rabbinic letters. Words are organized by letters of the alphabet and vowels, for example, ayin patach, ayin segol. All in all, an early attractive volume designed for pedagogical purposes.

Few Hebrew books were printed in Lissa, adding to the rarity of this volume. Lissa [Leszno] is a city of Moravians in Poland, was under Prussian rule from 1793-1920.
          
Paragraph 2    מפתח (לתועלת נערי בני ישראל ... למלמדי שפת עבר) למצוא חפץ שפה אחת ודברים אחדים. העברעאישע גלייכלויטענדע ווערטער פאן פערשיעדנען בעדייטונגען אינ'ס ריינע דייטשע איבערזעטצט אונד געזאממעלט פאן (יוסף) יוזפא ([בן] מהור"ר צבי הירש נ"י) הירשפעלד. פריפאטלעהרער צו שווערין אן דער ווארטהע ...

מלון עברי גרמני למילות המקרא.

          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Lissa 2; CD-EPI 0127115; W. Zeitlin Bibliotheca Hebraica, Leipzig 1891-95, p. 143-144
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Prussia
  
Subject
Children’s Literature:    Checked
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica