Drush Le’chag Ha’shavu’oth [sermon for the festival of Pentacost]

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 234

KAHANE, TZVI HIRSCH BEN JUDAH LEIB

Drush Le’chag Ha’shavu’oth [sermon for the festival of Pentacost]

FIRST EDITION. This copy with the rare variant title-page. Title within woodcut architectural border ff. 8. Stained in places, title closely shaved. Unbound. 12mo Vinograd, Venice 1317

Venice: Bragadin 1656

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

In his introduction the 25 year-old author records the current violence that swept the “finest comunities of Jewish Poland,” including Vilna and especially Lublin. He recounts the slaughter in a poetic language abounding with scholarly references. Compelled to leave Venice to search for his family back in Poland, he wished to leave behind the present slim work - “Works of a Halachic nature must wait until my mind is at ease.”