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Lot #    9390
Auction End Date    2/15/2005 1:29:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zafenat Pa'ne'ah
Title (Hebrew)    צפנת פענח
Author    [Polemic - Only Ed.] Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Hayyim Kelter
Publication Date    1874
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 32 pp., 188:132 mm., light age staining. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld (1811–1887), Hebrew author and mathematician. Born in Lublin, he lived most of his life in Opatow, Poland. Having taught himself sciences and European languages, he wrote for Ha-Shahar, Ha-Zefirah, Izraelita, and Polish newspapers, mostly on mathematical topics. In 1865 he published Yedi'ot ha-Shi'urim ("Science of Measurement"), by which a reader might "learn the elements of surveying, without the aid of a teacher." In 1874–75 he published polemic tracts against H. S. Slonimski, questioning the latter's competence in scientific matters. With I. L. Peretz, whose first wife was Lichtenfeld's daughter, he co-edited Sippurim be-Shir ve-Shirim Shonim me'et Shenei Ba'alei Asufot ("Stories in Verse and Sundry Poems From Two Anthologists," Warsaw, 1877), incorporating a long original poem by the editors called Hayyei Meshorer Ivri ("Life of a Hebrew Poet"). Lichtenfeld's book on mathematics, Bo'u Heshbon, was published posthumously (1895). Some of the terminology which he coined has been generally accepted.
          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0144435; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica