RABINOWITZ, JOSEPH LEIB, Halo Be-Ezri Tzuri Ve-Go’ali [Poem decrying the fear, terror and panic imposed upon the Jewish nation by Hitler and his cohorts.]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 132
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RABINOWITZ, JOSEPH LEIB, Halo Be-Ezri Tzuri Ve-Go’ali [Poem decrying the fear, terror and panic imposed upon the Jewish nation by Hitler and his cohorts.]

Broadside 22.5 x 17 inches Bibliographically unrecorded

Vilkovishki: Progress 1933

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $500
Highly unusual poem containing 176 rhymed lines, each of which adds up to the numerical equivalent of “693” (=1933, the year this broadside was published). The composer of this poem had an extraordinary mathematical talent for ingenious rhymed “gematrioth" each of which follow in natural prose. Rabinowitz concludes, when he writes negatively about the nations of the world, he means only to include Hitler, the Arab ruler of Yemen and and those that follow the path of Haman, “not those who have righteous hearts.”