Tze’enah Ure’enah.

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 179

JACOB BEN ISAAC OF JANOW

Tze’enah Ure’enah.

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. Woodcut illustrations within the text. The YIVO copy. ff. 266. Browned and stained, some leaves marginally frayed. Renaissance/Spring binding. 4to Vinograd, Sulzbach 481

Sulzbach: Zekel b. Aaron 1799

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $250

The most renowned Yiddish work of homiletical prose and particularly beloved among Jewish women over centuries. The Tze’enah Ure’enah is a miscellany of tales, Midrashim and exegetical comment woven around a Yiddish rendering and paraphrasing of the Pentateuch, Haphtaroth and Megiloth. Written in a tender, flowing style, the numerous editions have resulted in the text of the Tze’enah Ure’enah becoming a laboratory in examining the development of the Yiddish language over time.