Yafith, Baruch Halevi. Mein Zeideh's Hagodeh, oder a Pogrom oif dem Afikoman [Parodical Hagadah]. With notes by "Ma'aseh Alfas" [pseudonym of Benzion Alfas]

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Yafith, Baruch Halevi. Mein Zeideh's Hagodeh, oder a Pogrom oif dem Afikoman [Parodical Hagadah]. With notes by "Ma'aseh Alfas" [pseudonym of Benzion Alfas]

FIRST EDITION. Yiddish pp. 40. Browned, fragile. Original marbled boards. 8vo

Vilna: Rosenkranz and Schriftsetzer 1908

Est: $700 - $900

A celebration of Jewish history through the ages and the miracle of Jewish survival despite recurrent anti-Semitism. Footnotes in Hebrew refer to Rabbinic literature. The author, Benzion Alfas (1850-1940), was a student of the famed "kibbutz" of Eishishok and of the Gaon's kloiz in Vilna. See Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur, Vol. I (1956), cols. 118-120