Shmuel Yosef Fünn. Kirya Ne’emanah [a history of the Jews of Vilna]

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Shmuel Yosef Fünn. Kirya Ne’emanah [a history of the Jews of Vilna]

<<First Edition.>> Hebrew text, with some French and Russian. pp. viii, xii, ix-xxiv, 333 (complete). Lightly foxed and stained. Previous owners’ stamps, including that of a “Mordechai Friedman of Mehzeritch,” author of the Me’orer Yeshenim. Modern hardcover boards with spine support. 8vo. Vinograd, Vilna 1074.

Vilna: Yosef Reuven Romm 1860

Est: $120 - $180

PRICE REALIZED $140

An important and thorough scholarly study. Shmuel Yosef Fünn (1818-90) was a leading figure of the Russian Haskalah and a founder of the Hibat Tzion Zionist movement, having shifted from being a Lithuanian-style Talmudic scholar.