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Auction 33 · Lot 103

Brill, Joseph. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Le-Melamdim U-Morim [ satire on the difficulties associated with the teaching profession].

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
$650

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

author

(PARODY)

Place

(Cracow

Publication

1889)

references

Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature p. 88-96

summary

According to Davidson, the author was one of the “foremost satirists of the 19th century" (p. 88), and the present text is "a masterpiece of workmanship and a priceless document for the student of education among the Jews in Russia” (pp. 94-95)
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