Divrei Shir.

Auction 90 | Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts

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Lot 207
JATKOWSKI, SHLOMO ZALMAN ARYEH LEIB.

Divrei Shir.

Manuscript in Hebrew, <<written in a beautiful square and rabbinic hand>> on paper. ff. 30. Ex-library, previous owner’s marks. Contemporary calf-backed boards. 12mo.

Kalvaria: 1868

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $750
This work is dedicated to the author’s brother who moved to America. The first two poems are dedicated to R. Yehuda Leib Ginzburg, Rabbi of Lazdei, who encouraged the talented young poet to continue his work. It contains fifteen poems on various topics. The poems written to his brother <<pertain to life in America.>> Other poems refer to R. Moshe Chaim Luzatto and to the Haskalah poets Naphtali Herz Wessely, and Adam Hacohen Levinson. All written in an especially clear attractive script. According to Beryl Kagan, Shtet, Shtetlach…in Lita (1991) p. 241, R. Yehuda Leib Ginzburg published an article in HaLevanon and was a member of the Mekitzei Nirdamim Publication Society.