Devir Ephraim [Prospectus of the Library and Antiquities offered for sale by Ephraim Deinard]

DEINARD, EPHRAIM

Moinester Printing

St. Louis

(1926)

ONE OF ONLY ONE HUNDRED COPIES. Frontispiece portrait, plus four plates

Y. Goldman, Hebrew Printing In America no. 1187

Written in Deinrd's typically bombastic and entertaining style, the catalogue contains many interesting tidbits of bibliograhical information, iconoclastic theories, as well as a section devoted to literary forgeries. Goldman states that this collection was later acquired by Harvard. “The acquisition...provided the impetus Harvard needed ...for the establishment of a separate Jewish Division at the University library.” See S. Berkowitz’s M.A. Thesis on Deinard, Columbia University, 1964, p. 42. The Jewish Antiquities and objects were exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and later acquired by them. See G. Grossman & R. Ahlborn, Judaica at the Smithsonian (1997) pp. 74-77