LIBOWITZ, NEHEMIAH S. Ha- Maveth Be-panim Sochakim [Death In Good Humor Acollection of Jokes, Epigrams and Witticisms Concerning Death]

Libowitz’s works were praised as ”not only entertaining but valuable...typographically. The author deserves great credit for the care and artistic taste he displays in this direction.” (Young Israel, 24th January 1908, p.285). In the present work (p. 37) Libowitz responds to a letter from the scholar, Meir Ish-Shalom concerning Libowitz’s literary adversaries: Ephraim Deinard and Michael Rodkinson. “You have mentioned two names that should be eradicated. However, they are not at the same level, the hell of Deinard is cooled off for Rodkinson. Deinard should be boiled at the lowest (hottest) level, while for Rodkinson the entry level is enough.”