FEINSTEIN, CHAIM JACOB HAKOHEN. Kuntress Imrei Shabbath

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Lot 150

(INDIAN JUDAICA)

FEINSTEIN, CHAIM JACOB HAKOHEN. Kuntress Imrei Shabbath

FIRST EDITION. Verso of title with presentation inscription most likely by the Author and with his ink-stamp ff.(1),19,(2). Some light marginal staining. Original marbled wrappers over paper-waste of local Hebrew calendar. 12mo Yaari, Calcutta 29

Calcutta: Ezekiel Sillman for the Jewish Press 1874

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

The treatise censures the local practice of riding the “Railway” (i.e. trams, or trolley-cars) on the Sabbath without obvious awareness of the legal stricture. Written by an emissary from Safed, who “afforded the Calcutta Community a great spiritual benefit” during his three visits to India. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael pp.831-32; E.N. Musleah, On the Banks of the Ganga-The Sojourn of the Jews in Calcutta (1975) pp.511-12