Yesud Ha’Ma’alah [on his experiences as a founding settler in Mazkeret Batyah (Ekron)]

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 123

BRILL, JECHIEL

Yesud Ha’Ma’alah [on his experiences as a founding settler in Mazkeret Batyah (Ekron)]

FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, inscribed on title page to the Beith Medrash Library, London from the Author pp. (4),236. Lightly browned. Contemporary cloth, gently rubbed at corners, lacking spine. 8vo Friedberg, Yud 736

Mainz: By the author 1883

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $700

A pioneer of Hebrew printing in Eretz Israel, Brill (1836-86) estabilshed Jerusalem’s second Hebrew printing press and in 1863, began printing Ha’levanon, the first Hebrew periodical in Eretz Israel. A staunch defender of religious tradition, Brill also pleaded the cause of settlement outside the Jerusalem walls. He became embroiled in disputes concerning the policy of the agricultural school Mikve Israel, and along with other settlers left the country disillusioned. He settled in London in 1884. On Brill’s contibution to Hebrew printing in Eretz Israel, see M. Waxman, vol. III, pp.343-5