Kishinever Shechitah / The Kishineff Massacre. Composed and Arranged by Herman S. Shapiro

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Kishinever Shechitah / The Kishineff Massacre. Composed and Arranged by Herman S. Shapiro

Sheet music for piano / violin. English and Yiddish pp. 9, (1). Inner margins reinforced, slightly tattered around edges. Original color illustrated wrappers. Folio

New York: S. Goldberg 1904

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $250

This elegy gave musical expression to New York Jewry's outrage to the infamous Kishinev Pogrom of April 6-7, 1903