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Auction 58 · Lot 270
Di Etik.
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
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author
SPINOZA, BARUCH.
printer
Kultur Liga-Naye Gezelshaft
Place
Warsaw-Chicago
Publication
1923
Description
First Yiddish edition. Translated by W. Nathanson. Frontispiece portrait of Spinoza tipped in.
summary
Apart from one 19th-century Hebrew abridged paraphrase, Spinoza’s “Ethics” was not available in any Jewish language until W. Nathanson of New York produced this Yiddish translation in 1923. A Hebrew translation from the Latin by Jacob Klatzkin was published the following year.
pp. 316. Brittle. Original boards, rubbed. 4to.
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