Tze’enah Ure’enah.

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

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

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Lot 372

YA’AKOV BEN YITZCHAK OF JANOW.

Tze’enah Ure’enah.

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. Woodcut illustrations within the text. ff. 266. Ex-library (YIVO), foxed. Modern gilt-ruled calf. 4to. Vinograd, Sulzbach 481.

Sulzbach: Zekel ben Aaron 1799

Est: $120 - $180

PRICE REALIZED $150

The most renowned Yiddish work of homiletical prose and particularly beloved among Jewish women over centuries. The Tze’enah Ure’enah is a miscellany of tales, Midrashim and exegetical comment woven around a Yiddish rendering and paraphrasing of the Pentateuch, Haphtaroth and Megiloth. Written in a tender, flowing style, the numerous editions have resulted in the text of the Tze’enah Ure’enah becoming a laboratory in examining the development of the Yiddish language over time.