LOTZKI, ABRAHAM (Ed.) Shivchei Todah LeKir”ah [song of praise in honor of Czar Nicholas I]

A remarkable volume, that testifies to the rift between the Karaites and traditional Jewry, still so pervasive into the 19th century. Devotional poems by Abraham Firkovitch and others, composed in gratitude to the Czar for exempting Karites from army service and for drafting only the “Talmudic Jews.” This copy with the rare title-page, unknown to Mehlman. The first dated Hebrew book printed in Eupatoria.