(Rakowsky, Abraham A.) Masechta Shetaroth

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(PARODY)

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1894

Description

FIRST EDITION. With handwriiten poem on the title alluding to the author's real name

references

Friedberg, Mem 2556

summary

“Reckoned among the finest Talmudic parodies in Hebrew literature...A satire, in the form of a Talmudic treatise, on brokers and merchants, describing all the subterfuge used by them in accumulating wealth.” See Davidson Parody in Jewish Literature pp. 96-7 and no. 215

pp. 48. Later boards. 8vo

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