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Auction 3 · Lot 25

ORCHOTH TZADIKIM [ethics, according to the creed of the medieval Chasidei Aschkenaz]

Estimate
$150–$200
Hammer price
$225

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author

Anonymous

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Hertz Levi the Physician

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1735

Description

With Yiddish translation.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1437

summary

For an insight into the origin of this work and its link with the Zitn-Buch (Sepher Hamidoth) - the oldest morality book to appear in Yiddish, see I. Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature (1975) Vol. VII, p. 148-53
ff. (2), 108. Wormed and stained in places. Modern boards. 4to
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