Evreisko-Russki Slovar [Russian-Hebrew / Hebrew-Russian dictionary]

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

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Evreisko-Russki Slovar [Russian-Hebrew / Hebrew-Russian dictionary]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Prepared by Leon Mandelstam. Three vols. bound here complete in two volumes. pp. (2), 524, (2); 323, (24); 933. Ex-library, foxed. Modern boards. Thick 8vo.

St. Petersburg: M. Ettingera 1859-60

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

<<The first Russian-Hebrew / Hebrew-Russian dictionary.>> Successor to Max Lilienthal in the Russian Government’s Ministry of Education, Leon Mandelstamm (1819-89) attempted to enforce Haskalah influence, by way of secular education, upon Russian Jewry.