Margolioth, Elazar. Ma’aseh Niphla’ah VeNorah MehaRav HaGaon HaGadol HaKadosh…Zalmine Vitepsker [Story about the arrest of R. Shneor Zalman, the Alter Rebbe and other matter]

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

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

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Lot 80

(CHASSIDISM).

Margolioth, Elazar. Ma’aseh Niphla’ah VeNorah MehaRav HaGaon HaGadol HaKadosh…Zalmine Vitepsker [Story about the arrest of R. Shneor Zalman, the Alter Rebbe and other matter]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Yiddish text with Nekudoth. pp. 30. Worn and stained, small tear on lower corner of p. 2. Unbound. 8vo. cf. Habermann, Sha’arei Chabad no. 119, 120 (two later editions).

Czernowitz: Eli Igel 1862

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $550

Habermann lists only an 1863 and 1864 edition. JNUL has only the 1863 edition. Likely the first Chassidic story as an original Yiddish publication and not a translation. See Kerem Chabad (1992) no. IV, part II p. 249. According to Chone Shmeruk (Siphruth Yiddish (1978) p. 212 n. 29) this pamphlet represents the beginning of Chassidic hagiography.