Arabish Verterbichel, mit Geshprechen, mit dem Originelen Arabishen Alef-Beis in Zeyne Fier Geshtalten [Arabic WordBooks].
AUCTION 87 |
Thursday, January 16th,
2020 at 1:00pm
"K2" Online Sale: Hebrew & Judaic Printed Books
Lot 263
(YIDDISH).
Arabish Verterbichel, mit Geshprechen, mit dem Originelen Arabishen Alef-Beis in Zeyne Fier Geshtalten [Arabic WordBooks].
Warsaw: Altneuland 1920
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $150
Apparently for use by Yiddish-speaking Jews immigrating to Palestine in order to facilitate conversation with the native Arab-speaking Palestinians.
As a Yiddish - Arabic text, the work is not the first of its kind. Getzl Zelikovitz published in New York a popular 32-page Arabic handBooks two years earlier, and with the same purpose (see https://blogs.princeton.edu/rareBooks/2010/06/teach-yourself-arabic-in-yi/).
The author of the present work mentions Zelikovitz in a footnote to the preface, noting that, having been published in America, it is inaccessible to European Jewry, and moreover, it teaches an antiquated form of Arabic.