Sepher HaPloiderzak, o Me’orath Tziph’onim [“Vipers’ Den.”]

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art

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Lot 84

DEINARD, EPHRAIM.

Sepher HaPloiderzak, o Me’orath Tziph’onim [“Vipers’ Den.”]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Six cartoon plates. This copy <<inscribed and signed by Deinard>> on front free endpaper. pp. (4), 100. Ex-library, few leaves browned or stained, one plate chipped at edges affecting a few words of heading. Contemporary boards. 12mo. Singerman 4060; Israel Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1907) p. 215, no. 51; Goldman 407.

Baltunowka (i.e. Newark, NJ): n.p. 1890-92

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $400

Deinard’s criticisms are directed at the literary figures of his day: Eliezer Ben Yehudah (p. 37); Abraham Elijah Harkavy (p. 97); Michael Levi Rodkinson (pp. 16, 59, 73) et al. As ever, “R. Ephroimele” (as Deinard refers to himself) also lambasted various Chassidic groups: See his impressions of R. Moses of Sevran (pp. 5-6); R. Yochanan of Rachmistrivka (p. 10); and R. David of Tolna (p. 73.) The rabbinic leadership of Lithuanian Jewry is also targeted, including the Brisker Rebbetzin, wife of R. Joshua Leib Diskin of Jerusalem, who was notorious for her unrelenting attacks on free-thinkers (see pp. 59, 73, 90).