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Bidding Information
Lot #    6103
Auction End Date    11/18/2003 1:48:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Akar ve-Akarah
Title (Hebrew)    עקר ועקרה
Author    Abromowitz-Ginsberg
City    St. Petersburg
Publisher    S. Sokolovsky
Publication Date    1898
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 32 pp., octavo, 195:140 mm., usual browning, not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Tale describing the difficult life of Jews. The story is told in four chapters. The main protagonists are Shimshon Napha, large man and blacksmith by profession, and his wife Nehama. They are barren, the central theme of the story, and, in addition to their personal misfortune, undergo numerous other trials, for example, their house burns down. By the end of the story Shimshon and Nehama have made two weddings.

Akar ve-Akarah was published by Yehudah Leib Rabinovich (1862–1937) at the press of S. Sokolovski. Rabinovich served as editor of Ha-Meliz and later contributed articles to the Jewish press in the United States.

          
Paragraph 2    ספור מאת י. אברמוביטש-גינצבורג. הוצאת ל. רבינוביץ, עורך "המליץ" ומו"לו...
          
Reference
Description		    Friedberg, ע 1106, CD-EPI 0107006
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Literature
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica