(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 15

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LIBOWITZ, NEHEMIAH S. Peniël - Five Essays on Death, Mourning and Consolation Consisting Mainly of Quotations from Talmudic and Midrashic Literature and the Sayings of the Philosophers, with notes. - To the Memory of My Beloved Son, Louis Laurence, with Everlasting Sorrow, Father pp. 72. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 8vo Friedberg, Pey 463

Brooklyn: A. H. Rosenberg 1914

Est: $300 - $500

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