LOTZKI, ABRAHAM (Ed.) Shivchei Todah LeKir”ah [song of praise in honor of Czar Nicholas I]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(KARAITICA).

printer

n.p

Place

Eupatoria

Publication

1833

Description

Hebrew and Judeo-Tatar.

references

Vinograd, Eupatoria 2; Mehlman, 1833

summary

A remarkable volume, that testifies to the rift between the Karaites and traditional Jewry, still so pervasive into the 19th century. Devotional poems by Abraham Firkovitch and others, composed in gratitude to the Czar for exempting Karites from army service and for drafting only the “Talmudic Jews.” This copy with the rare title-page, unknown to Mehlman. The first dated Hebrew book printed in Eupatoria.

ff. (8). Lightly browned and stained in places. Modern boards. 4to

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