(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

A. H. Rosenberg

Brooklyn, New York

1914

LIBOWITZ, NEHEMIAH S. Peniël - Five Essays on Death, Mourning and Consolation Consisting Mainly of Quotations from Talmudic and Midrashic Literature and the Sayings of the Philosophers, with notes. To the Memory of My Beloved Son, Louis Laurence, with Everlasting Eorrow, Father.

Friedberg, Pey 463

A “gentleman-scholar” whose youthful success in the diamond business afforded him the opportunity to devote himself to writing (particularly polemics), and other intellectual pursuits. Born in Poland in 1862, Libowitz emigrated to the United States in 1881, after a short spell in Palestine in 1927, he returned to America, where he died in 1939. This treatise on death, mourning and consolation in biblical and talmudic sources is dedicated to the memory of his son, Louis who died at the young age of twenty- six.