SHALKOVICH, ABRAHAM LEIB (Ben-Avigdor). Hasafrut Ha’ivrit Hachadashah Ve’atidoteh [“Modern Hebrew Literature and its Future.”]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

Rosnick & Kaplan

Place

New York

Publication

1908

Description

Frontispiece portrait of the Author

references

Deinard, Koheleth America 616

summary

A lecture delivered in New York at a celebration in honor of this pioneering modern Hebrew publisher. Ben-Avigdor (1866-1921) was the “outstanding entrepreneur in the field of Hebrew literature...(it’s) remarkable progress in the first two decades of the (twentieth) century may be credited to his indefatigable energy.” See Waxman IV, pp.80-4; EJ, XIV cols.1268-9

pp.(1),30. Later boards, taped. 8vo

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