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Lot #
9681
Auction End Date
3/22/2005 11:40:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Lev Tov
Title (Hebrew)
לב טוב
Author
R. Isaac b. Eliakim of Posen
City
Dyhernfurth
Publisher
Widow Rehel & Partners
Publication Date
1800
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
79 ff., 216:172 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A good copy bound in modern half leather and marbled paper boards.
Detailed
Description
R. Isaac b. Eliakim of Posen (17th century), Yiddish moralist and author. Isaac wrote an ethical-religious work in Yiddish called Leftov (Heb. Lev Tov; in 20 parts, Prague, 1620; reprinted with additions by Hayyim b. Jacob Orbach, first ed. Cracow, 1641), extracts of which were published by J. Winter and S. Wuensche (in Juedische Literatur, 3 (1896), 541–2). Unlike other Yiddish ethical works, Lev Tov was addressed to both men and women. It counseled the men to honor their wives - since they educate the children to keep a Jewish home - and stressed that men and women have equal rights. This work, which became very popular, was criticized in the anonymous Yiddish book, Hasoges (Heb. pronunciation Hassagot; Amsterdam, c. 1710). Isaac was apparently attracted to Kabbalah. From Venice, R. Moses Zacuto sent him his treatise on the laws of writing Torah scrolls, Tikkun Soferim, for approval (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Opp. 554, which also contains Isaac's reply).
Reference
Description
EJ; Vinograd 335
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Listing Classification
Period
18th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Other:
Ethics
Characteristic
Language:
Yiddish
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
