SHALKOVICH, ABRAHAM LEIB (Ben-Avigdor). Hasafrut Ha’ivrit Hachadashah Ve’atidoteh [“Modern Hebrew Literature and its Future.”]

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 35
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

SHALKOVICH, ABRAHAM LEIB (Ben-Avigdor). Hasafrut Ha’ivrit Hachadashah Ve’atidoteh [“Modern Hebrew Literature and its Future.”]

Frontispiece portrait of the Author pp.(1),30. Later boards, taped. 8vo Deinard, Koheleth America 616

New York: Rosnick & Kaplan 1908

Est: $400 - $600
A lecture delivered in New York at a celebration in honor of this pioneering modern Hebrew publisher. Ben-Avigdor (1866-1921) was the “outstanding entrepreneur in the field of Hebrew literature...(it’s) remarkable progress in the first two decades of the (twentieth) century may be credited to his indefatigable energy.” See Waxman IV, pp.80-4; EJ, XIV cols.1268-9