Tze’enah Ure’enah

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

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author

Jacob ben Isaac of Janow

printer

Z. Arnstein and Son

Place

Sulzbach

Publication

1836

Description

Yiddish printed in Wayber-taytsch type. Woodcut illustrations within the text

references

Vinograd, Sulzbach 656

summary

The Tze’enah Ure’enah is the most renowned Yiddish work of homiletical prose, particularly beloved among Jewish women. A miscellany of tales, Midrashim and exegetical comment woven around a Yiddish rendering and paraphrasing of the Pentateuch, Haphtaroth and Megiloth. Written in a tender, flowing style, the numerous editions have resulted in the text of the Tze’enah Ure’enah becoming a laboratory in examining the development of the Yiddish language over time

ff. 256. Some staining, some pages loose. Modern calf in fitted solander-box. Large 4to

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