Only edition, quarto, [2], 198, [2] pp. 230:140 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A good copy bound in recent boards.

The Mehlman copy with his note "נדיר" on fly.

Ladino work set in Hebrew by the noted Sephardic scholar and author Ben Tsiyon Ṭaragan. Guerṭah de Yerushalyim (Guardians of Jerusalem) is a bibliographic work on Hebrew literature with detailed entries.

Ben Tsiyon Ṭaragan (1870–1953), writer, teacher, and journalist in Ereẓ Israel and Egypt. Born in Jerusalem, he received a traditional education at the Bet-Midrash Doresh Zion and yeshivot, learned printing, and began to work in the printing press of E. Ben-Yehuda. When the latter was imprisoned, Taragan became manager of the press, and, after Ben-Yehuda was freed, helped him in preparing his dictionary. Taragan also contributed to Ben-Yehuda's periodical Hashkafah. In 1906 he left for Alexandria , where he worked as secretary of the rabbinate and as a teacher of Hebrew in the first school to use the teaching method of Ivrit be-Ivrit (Hebrew in Hebrew) in Egypt. Taragan took an active part in Jewish communal life, especially among the youth of Alexandria. He also served as a reporter-correspondent for Hebrew periodicals in the Diaspora. Taragan published textbooks on teaching Hebrew. However, more important are his histories of the Alexandria community – Les communautés israélites d'Alexandrie; aperçu historique depuis les temps des Ptolémées jusqu'à nos jours (1932) and Korot ha-Kehillah ha-Yehudit be-Alexandria, 1906 – 1946 (1947) – as an eyewitness record of contemporary trends and developments there.

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