Rosenzweig, Gershon. Masechta America...Talmud Yankee

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 30

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Rosenzweig, Gershon. Masechta America...Talmud Yankee

FIRST EDITION Few light stains in places. Later cloth-backed marbled boards. 8vo

New York: A. Ginsberg 1892

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

Satire of American-Jewish life written in the traditional Talmudic style. The author dedicates the work to “Dodi R. Shmuel Hanagid” - more familiarly known as Uncle Sam. See I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1966) p.247. A later edition is illustrated in The New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) p. 211