(RUSSIA)

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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

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Lot 199

(RUSSIA)

Dainow, Tzvi Hirsch (Maggid of Slutzk). Kevod Melech [sermon extolling the virtues of, along with the obligation to honor, "our compassionate King, Czar Alexander II”]. With addendum entitled Oz vi-Yeshuath Melech, an oration delivered on April 4th 1866, the day the Czar survived an assasination attempt pp. 47. Ex-library, dampstained. Modern boards. 8vo.

Odessa: M.A. Belinson 1869

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

Dainow (1832-1877) was a great orator who stressed the need for Russification and reform in Jewish education, proposing the combination of traditional Torah thought alongside the enlightened ideas of the Haskalah.