Menachem Mendel Dolitzky. Mopheth LeRabim [“A Model for the Multitude.”]

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 165
(RUSSIA).

Menachem Mendel Dolitzky. Mopheth LeRabim [“A Model for the Multitude.”]

Frontispiece portrait of Wissotzky. Hebrew text. Additional title in German. pp. 26. Ex-library. Original printed wrappers. 8vo.

Frankfurt a/Main: E. Slobotsky 1892

Est: $500 - $700
Biography of businessman, Zionist activist, and philanthropist Kalonymus Ze’ev Wissotzky (1824–1904), issued on his fiftieth wedding anniversary. A diligent Talmud student even after his marriage, Wissotzky was eventually drawn to business and soon rose to became a major tea trader in Russia and throughout in Europe. He utilized much of his wealth for communal need in both Russia and Palestine.