Ithiel HaKushi MeVenezia / Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakspeare [sic!]. Translated into Hebrew by J. E. Salkinson. Edited by Peretz Smolenskin.

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Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts

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Lot 233

SHAKESPEARE, WILLLIAM.

Ithiel HaKushi MeVenezia / Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakspeare [sic!]. Translated into Hebrew by J. E. Salkinson. Edited by Peretz Smolenskin.

<<FIRST HEBREW EDITION.>> Titles in Hebrew and English. pp. 35, (1), 298 (i. e. 198), (2). Brittle. English title detached. Later boards. 8vo.

Vienna: Spitzer & Holzwarth Jun. 1874

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

<<THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF ANY OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS INTO THE HEBREW LANGUAGE.>> Smolenskin writes in the the introduction: “Shakespeare’s plays in the Holy Tongue! …what a great prize the translator of these plays has brought into the treasure-house of our [Hebrew] language.” See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 1262-3.