Masechta Chulin / Bechoroth min Talmud Yerushalmi. With the commentary Cheshek Shlomo.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 121
FRIEDLANDER, SOLOMON JUDAH.

Masechta Chulin / Bechoroth min Talmud Yerushalmi. With the commentary Cheshek Shlomo.

Additional and divisional titles. Some leaves loose, browned. Contemporary boards, detached. Folio.

Szinervaralja: Y. Vider 1907

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $400
A literary forger and sometime scholar, this was Friedlander’s most audacious publication based on the fictitious discovery of a “13th century Spanish” manuscript containing the long-lost Jerusalem Talmud on the Order of Kodashim. Although initially greeted with great enthusiasm, doubts soon arose as to the authenticity of the work.