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Lot #    8714
Auction End Date    12/7/2004 1:38:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Teitiv Da'at
Title (Hebrew)    תיטיב דעת
Author    [Kariate - Only Ed] Mordechai b. Joseph Sultanski
City    Yevpatoriya
Publisher    Abraham Firkowitz
Publication Date    1858
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [3], 1-3, [2], 4-44; [1], 45-130, [1] pp., 222:150 mm., extra wide margins, light age and damp staining. A near fine copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    With unrecorded extra tile p. on blue paper.
          
Detailed
Description		    Kariate literature by Mordechai b. Joseph Sultanski, (c. 1772–1862), Karaite scholar and writer. Born in Lutsk, Volhynia, he served as teacher first in his native town, then in Chufut-Kale and Yevpatoriya (both in the Crimea), and later in Kherson, Ukraine. Sultansky was widely read in both Karaite literature and such rabbinic authors as Maimonides, Abrahan ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Bahya ibn Paquda, and Levi b. Gershom. The most important of his printed works is his Zekher Zaddikim (also entitled Kizzur Aggadah; ed. by S. Ponanski, 1920) which contains a detailed account of Karaism from its beginnings to the author's time. Since the book lacks both critical approach and documentary research, it is of little scientific value. However, it is of great interest as an example of modern Karaite historiography, the predecessor of Abraham Firkovich's method of composing Karaite history by twisting and falsifying facts to elevate Karaism and decry Rabbanism. Sultansky also published a Hebrew grammar entitled Petah Tikva (pt. 1, Yevpatoriya, 1857), Metiv Da'at (ibid., 1858), a philosophical defense of Karaism, containing many quotations from old rabbinic and modern Hebrew authors, and polemics against Rabbanism and Hasidism.
          
Paragraph 2    יופיע דעות בענינים מתחלפים... בינה מאלפים לבחורי חמד... מאתי... מרדכי סולטנסקיי הלוצקי חנה פה... גוזלווא... בן... ר' יוסף... אבד' רב ומץ' דקה"ק לוצקא... (חלק [א]-ב).

[1], 130-45 עמ', עם שער קצר: חלק שני. עמ' 129-128: תפלה קצרה לרבנו זרח החכם. פותחת: אברך אל אדון עולם ונעלם. סי' א"ב, זרח בר נתן חזק. אוצר השירה והפיוט, א, עמ' 17, מס' 337; ד, עמ' 217, מס' 337. עמ' 130: אל אלהים אדני בינה געית דל. בקשה. סי' א"ב, תשר"ק, אני זרח בר נתן הטרוקי חזק ואמץ. שם, א, עמ' 160, מס' 3419; ד, עמ' 243, מס' 3419. עיקרי תורת הקראים על בריאת העולם, מציאות המלאכים, הפסקת הנבואה והשארות הנפש בצורת שאלות ותשובות, תוך פולמוס עם תורת הקבלה, החסידות ועם ספר הברית [מאת ר' פינחס אליהו הורוויץ].

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0153500; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Karaite
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica