Simchath Hanephesh [“The Joy of the Soul”]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $300

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author

KIRCHHAHN, ELCHANAN

printer

Matthias Andrei

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1707

Description

FIRST EDITION. Text in Yiddish only, printed in Wayber-taytsch type. The Elkan Nathan Adler copy. Manuscript primer used as rear paste-down endpaper

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 215

summary

Code of conduct throughout the Jewish year. Written in an exuberant style emphasizing the joys of living and enlivened with stories and ethical teachings. R. Jonathan Eyebesheutz praised the work in his Ya’aroth Devash, particularly urging women to consult it daily. See Carmilly-Weinberger, p. 181 regarding the censorship of a later edition of the Simchath Hanephesh due to the liberality of its Yiddish translation

ff. (2), 98. Worn, some worming. Contemporary boards, broken. 4to

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