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Bidding Information
Lot #    7654
Auction End Date    7/13/2004 3:08:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Nahalat Zevi
Title (Hebrew)    נחלת צבי
Author    [Women - Kabbalah - Unrecorded]
City    [Koenigsberg]
Publication Date    c. 1860
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [4], 83; [1], 82 ff., 228:178 mm., usual light age staining, wide margins, old stamps on several ff. Ex-Libras on red morocco in gild letters of "Haja wife of the Gaon R. Jehiel Heller" on endpaper. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and split.
          
Paragraph 1    Initial title page in Hebrew not recorded. Title gives Amsterdam 1820 obviously falsified to avoid the tax man and censor.
          
Detailed
Description
   Collection of kabbalistic stories by R. Zevi Hirsh b. Jerahmeel Chotsh collected from the Zohar and translated into Judeo-German. From its first edition (Frankfurt am Main 1711) the work became extremely popular and was printed many times.

R. Zevi Hirsh b. Jerahmeel Chotsh (c. 1700), kabbalist and itinerant preacher who lived in Cracow, in Prossnitz, and in western Europe. He published: Shabtade-Rigla, a collection of kabbalistic sermons (Fuerth, 1693); Derekh Yesharah, kabbalistic prayers and magic (ibid., 1697); and Hemdat Zevi, detailed commentary on Tikkunei Zohar in the spirit of Isaac Luria's Kabbalah (Amsterdam, 1706). A part of the first work was translated into German in 1698, probably with the assistance of the author, as Verzeichnis der General-und Haupt-Lehrsaetze der alten Cabbalisten. The autograph manuscript of his kabbalistic work Tiferet Zevi is extant in a Bodleian manuscript at Oxford.

          
Reference
Description
   Vinograd, Koenigsberg 273? EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica