Yehuda Leib Ben Zev. Kol Rinah al Hashalom [celebrating the the end of the war between France and Austria]
AUCTION 62 |
Thursday, June 26th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 136
(NAPOLEONICA).
Yehuda Leib Ben Zev. Kol Rinah al Hashalom [celebrating the the end of the war between France and Austria]
Vienna: Anton Schmid 1810
Est: $800 - $1,000
Ben Zev (1764–1811), was a poet, grammarian and lexicographer, the first Jewish scholar to apply Western research methods to the study of Hebrew. This poem praises the greatness of Napoleon and congratulates him upon his engagement to Maria Louisa, daughter of his former enemy Emperor Franz I - Napoleon’s father-in-law to be!