Account Book of a Jerusalem Antiquarian Book-store

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 249
(LAND OF ISRAEL)

Account Book of a Jerusalem Antiquarian Book-store

Ruled ledger ff. 40. Modern boards. Stains. First page laid to size. Folio

Jerusalem: 1933-36

Est: $1,000 - $1,200
The establishment of Samuel Waxman in Me’ah She’arim was a first-rate bookstore in Jerusalem. Waxman’s account book features a list of the cream of scholarly Jerusalem: Rabbis Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Dov Hakohen Kook, Yechiel Michel Hurwitz Dayan, Jacob Moses Charlap, Nathan Ra’anan, David Hakohen Hanazir, Saul Lieberman, Moshe Ostrovsky, Asher Karlinsky, Simcha Zisel Dvoretz, Asher Sandomirsky, Menachem Ushpizai, Baruch Werner, Elijah Romm, Joseph Gershon Hurwitz, David Shapira, Pinchas Graievsky, David Twersky (son of the Rebbe), Judah Leib Hakohen Fishman, Rabbi Duschinsky, Jeruchem Fischel Bernstein, Ben Zion Shapiro (son of R. Tzvi Michel), Jacob Henach Sankowitz, Simcha Asaf, Mordecai Menachem Frenkel, Benjamin Mendelsohn of Kfar Chasidim, Isaac Ornstein, etc From the books purchased, one gains insight into the literary interests and proclivities of these men who contributed so much to contemporary Jewish scholarship