Bnei Ha’neorim [collected poems, fables and riddles with biography of Jonas Jeiteles]

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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

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JEITELES, JUDAH.

Bnei Ha’neorim [collected poems, fables and riddles with biography of Jonas Jeiteles]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonas Jeiteles. Additional title in German. pp. (10), 200. Previous owners marks, light stains in places. Contemporary half-calf over mottled boards. Sm. 8vo. Vinograd, Prague 1169

Prague: Schollischen 1821

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

Son of the famed Prague physician Jonas Jeiteles, the author (1773–1838) was a frequent contributor to HaMe’assef. One of the four chairmen of the Prague community, he supervised its German-language Jewish school in which both secular and religious subjects were taught equally. Judah Jeiteles was the first to use the expression “Haskalah” for the Enlightenment Movement.