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Auction 27 · Lot 15

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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printer

A. H. Rosenberg

Place

Brooklyn

Publication

1914

Description

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 Sorrow, Father

references

Friedberg, Pey 463

summary

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
pp. 72. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 8vo
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