Kol Ya’akov [interpretations of Legends of the Talmud]

AUCTION 35 | Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 1:00

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Lot 181

MARGOLIOUTH, JACOB KOPPEL

Kol Ya’akov [interpretations of Legends of the Talmud]

Title within typographical border. Head- and tail-pieces. On final page, additional title within typographical border. Inscription by former owner “Rafael Michel Sanguinetti, 1732.” ff. 11, (1), (1 blank), (1). Title marginally repaired. Stained. Modern vellum. 4to Vinograd, Venice 1341

Venice: Vendramin - Antonio Rizzini 1658

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

In the Introduction, the author tells a tale of woe. He stemmed from Vladimir, Volhynia. As a result of the recent spate of calamities that befell his native Poland, he was forced to flee to Constantinople, while his children were taken into captivity. The author refers to the Chmielnicki Uprising of 1648-9 and appended to the book is an elegy for the martyred Jews of Poland. Therein the elegist describes various atrocities commmitted, including the rape of Jewish young women who were subsequently tortured. See JE, Vol. VIII, p.329