With Russian translation and critical notes. Included in: Evreiskoi Istoria [Jewish History]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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(ETHICS OF THE FATHERS)

With Russian translation and critical notes. Included in: Evreiskoi Istoria [Jewish History]

Russian interspersed with Hebrew. Opposite title, engraving of monument to Jewish soldiers, Sebastopol 1854-1855 pp. (6), 4, (2), (1), 188, 10, 62, 30, 4, (2), 23, (1), 4, 4, (2). Calf backed cloth, spine scuffed. 4to

St. Petersburg: M. Ettinger 1866

Est: $500 - $700

The lion's portion of the book (pp. 1-188) consists of "Vosemnadtzat Evreiskikh Nadgrobnykh Nadpisei iz Kryma," a Russian translation of Prof. Daniel Chwolson's research paper, "Achtzehn Hebraische Grabschriften aus der Krim," published a year earlier in the Memoires of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science. When the Karaite scholar Abraham Firkovich was accused of falsification of the tombstone inscriptions from the ancient Jewish cemetery of Cufut-Kale in the Crimea, Prof. Chwolson defended him and the authenticity of his recorded history