Meir Barnett. Takanoth shel Chevrath Chibath Yerushalayim.

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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Lot 53

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Meir Barnett. Takanoth shel Chevrath Chibath Yerushalayim.

In Hebrew and Yiddish. With fold-out map of the Land of Israel (after the Amsterdam 1695 Hagadah). Includes supplement listing books the author has made available to be borrowed from his personal library. The copy of the bibliophile Abraham Meir Habermann, with his stamp. pp. (1), 15, (2). Map rehinged. Modern stiff wrappers. 8vo.

London: S.L. Brill 1901

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

The author was a furrier by trade who also published a host of works in Hebrew and Yiddish to enlighten and educate British Jewry, especially the residents of the East End whose mother tongue was Yiddish. In this pamphlet, the author describes his trip to the Holy Land and the abject poverty of many of the residents there. Subsequently, Barnett formed the present Society to help the indigent scholars of Jerusalem. “We in London enjoy the good life while they are starving.”