SCHATZKES, MOSES AARON. Der Yiddisher Far-Pesach [parody on pre-Passover preparations]
AUCTION 47 |
Thursday, December 10th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 239
(PARODY)
SCHATZKES, MOSES AARON. Der Yiddisher Far-Pesach [parody on pre-Passover preparations]
New York: Morgen Zhournal 1901
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $200
A native of Pinsk-Karlin, Moses Aaron Schatzkes (1825-1899) was a Lithuanian maskil who pokes fun at many of the halachic stringencies that generations of rabbis have instituted in relation to Passover. See Ch. Liberman, Ohel Rochel, II, pp. 273-9; I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature, no. 269;