Russkoye Zakonodatelstvo o Yevreyakh [“Russian Legislation Affecting the Jews”]

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 326

ORSHANSKI, ILYA (ELIJAH) GRIGORYEVICH.

Russkoye Zakonodatelstvo o Yevreyakh [“Russian Legislation Affecting the Jews”]

FIRST EDITION. Ex-library, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, 4to

St. Petersburg: 1877

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $200

Seminal work by one of Russia’s most important jurist. A fearless Jewish publicist, Orshanski traces for the first time an impartial analysis of the origins and motivation behind the restrictive legal position of the Jews in Russia. See JE, IX 439-40