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Bidding Information
Lot #    6905
Auction End Date    3/2/2004 4:02:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Bikkurei ha-Ittim, Volumes 1-6
Title (Hebrew)    בכורי העתים
Author    [Haskalah - Periodical] Shalom Cohen, Editor
City    Vienna
Publisher    Anton Schmid
Publication Date    1821-26
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Initial 6 of 12 volumes, 212; 228; 240; 296; 508; 320 pp., 186:114 mm., usual light age staining, stamp on title, old hands on fly. Near fine copies bound in the original paper covered boards, rubbed on edges.
          
Detailed
Description		    Bikkurei ha-Ittim (First Fruits of the Times), Hebrew literary-scientific annuals, published in Vienna for 12 successive years (1821–32), and a central forum for Haskalah literature. The editor of the first three volumes, Shalom b. Jacob Cohen, sought to continue in this publication the tradition of Ha-Me'assef, the journal which initiated Hebrew periodical publications in the Haskalah period. (He had previously published and edited the last three volumes of Ha-Me'assef he-Hadash.) The first volumes also contained a German section (transcribed into Hebrew letters), which was later discontinued. The editors following Cohen were: Moses Landau (vols. 4–5), Solomon Pergamenter (vol. 6). All the various literary genres were represented in these volumes - e.g., fiction, research, as well as translations of world literature (but mainly from German) - and were contributed by writers from Italy, Bohemia, Austria, Galicia, and Hungary. Reprints of a selection of works from Ha-Me'assef were also included. Other contributors included S. D. Luzzatto and Isaac Erter.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; BE 902; Not in CD-EPI
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Bohemia
  
Subject
Other:    Haskalah
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica