Auction 32 · Lot 24

Kadimah [Hebrew monthly]. Edited by Gerson Rosenweig

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

I. Lipschitz

Place

New York

Publication

1899

Description

Numbers 1 - 6 (All published). The N. S. Libowitz copy, with his stamp and signature. A fine copy

references

Singerman S458; Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1907), no.241

summary

A wealth of descriptive detail of Jewish life in America, scholarly articles, literary reviews, poetry, travelogues, as well as the editor’s Massechet Chanukah (a parody on playing cards). Of bibliographical interest are the lists of books for sale at the conclusion of each issue. The journal contains contributions by the most eminent scholars of the day: Alexander Harkavy, Meir Ish-Shalom (Friedmann), Bernard Drachman, J.D. Eisenstein, Ch.B. Friedberg, Solomon Mandelkern, P. Wiernick, L. Lewysohn, to name a few. The appearance of such a journal augured well for the future of Jewish scholarship in America

pp.(2), 288. (No. 4 [April] misbound between nos. 5 [May] - 6 [June], thus pp. 145-192 misbound between pp. 240-241; also pp. 161-168 misbound between pp. 176-177). Contemporary boards, soiled. 4to

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