Tze’enah Ure’enah

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Lot 192

Jacob ben Isaac of Janow.

Tze’enah Ure’enah

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. Many woodcut textual illustrations ff. 256. Closely shaved, stained. Modern calf in elegant fitted solander-box. Large 4to Vinograd, Sulzbach 656

Sulzbach: Z. Arnstein & Son 1836

Est: $500 - $700

A miscellany of Midrashic tales and exegetical commentary, woven around a Yiddish rendering and paraphrasing of the Pentateuch, Haphtaroth and Megiloth, the Tze’enah Ure’enah is the most renowned Yiddish work of homiletical prose and has been particularly beloved by generations of Jewish women. Written in a lucid, 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