(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

AUCTION 19 |
Tuesday, March 11th,
2003 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art
Lot 15
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)
Brooklyn, New York: A. H. Rosenberg 1914
Est: $800 - $1,200
PRICE REALIZED $800
A “gentleman-scholar” whose youthful success in the diamond business afforded him the opportunity to devote himself to writing (particularly polemics), and other intellectual pursuits. Born in Poland in 1862, Libowitz emigrated to the United States in 1881, after a short spell in Palestine in 1927, he returned to America, where he died in 1939. This treatise on death, mourning and consolation in biblical and talmudic sources is dedicated to the memory of his son, Louis who died at the young age of twenty- six.