Frumkin, Aryeh Leib. Bazeh Yimtza Ladaath...Ha-Sepher Even Shmuel Asher Yeitzei Be-kerev Ha-Yamim...[prospectus of historical work concerning all matters pertaining to Jerusalem and its people...from the time of the Ramba”n to the present]

(JERUSALEM)

Shmelke Yoeph and brother-in-law

Jerusalem

[1872]

With handwritten notations including in Frumkin’s hand and stamp of R. Abraham Ashkenazi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem

Ha-Levy 172

Rare prospectus of Frumkin’s important magnum opus, Even Shmuel and Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim. According to Shoshana Ha-Levy, only one copy exists, in the Zionist Archives, Jerusalem. It contains an introduction by Frumkin, letter from R. Meir Auerbach and R. Abraham Ashkenazi, the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem and a listing of over 650 names of those the author proposed to write about. Part One of Frumkin’s work was published two years later in Vilna, 1874 under the title Even Shmuel. The complete and final version was published in three volumes under the title Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim, edited by Eliezer Rivlin, in Jerusalem,1928-30