Sepher Nachalath Olamim. Prepared by Shmuel Yevnin.

Auction 96 | Wednesday, February 09th, 2022 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 177

(POLAND).

Sepher Nachalath Olamim. Prepared by Shmuel Yevnin.

First Edition. Opening pastedown inscribed by the author to Benjamin Schlesinger. pp. 112. Browned. Original printed boards, detached, stained. 8vo.

Warsaw: Isaac Goldman 1882

Est: $100 - $150

Transcriptions of 334 Tombstones from Warsaw’s old Jewish Cemetery. Established in 1806, Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery contains hundreds of thousands of graves. A pantheon of Jewish heroes, it is celebrated for the diversity of those interred there, containing representatives of all streams of Polish Jewish life in the 19th and early 20th centuries; from leading Rabbis to artists, Zionists to Bundists.