Rosenzweig, Gershon. Masechta America...Talmud Yankee

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

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A. Ginsberg

Place

New York

Publication

1892

Description

FIRST EDITION

summary

Satire of American-Jewish life written in the traditional Talmudic style. The author dedicates the work to “Dodi R. Shmuel Hanagid” - more familiarly known as Uncle Sam. See I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1966) p.247. A later edition is illustrated in The New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) p. 211

Few light stains in places. Later cloth-backed marbled boards. 8vo

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