(Isaac Meir Dick). Der Porush Fun Berditchev.

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Lot 193

(YIDDISH LITERATURE).

(Isaac Meir Dick). Der Porush Fun Berditchev.

Yiddish text, with nikud. pp. 24. Unbound. 12mo.

Warsaw: 1856

Est: $400 - $600

Writing under the pseudonym of “Z. H. Shapiro,” this satirical humorous story by Isaac Meir Dick (1814-1893) concerns an impostor acting the role of Tzadik in order to extort funds from the unbeknown. See Lexicon fun der Nayer Yiddisher Literatur (1958), Vol. II, col. 522.