Horowitz, Pinchas Elijah. Sepher Habrith.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

J.K. Neimann

Brünn

1797

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one.

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A popular work that presented the general sciences from the perspective of Jewish tradition. Indeed, following the Maaseh Tuviah of 1707, it is among the very earliest encyclopedia of the sciences to be printed in Hebrew. Horowitz, a pupil of Elijah, Gaon of Vilna, devoted long sections in this work to the United States of America, as well as to Brazil. See M. Silber, America in Hebrew Literature (1928) pp. 49-50; and I. Zinberg, History of Jewish Literature, Vol. VI (1975), pp. 260-70. SEE: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/211402/hebrew-bestsellers-pinchas-hurwitz? utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=75437d1488-October_13_201610_13_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-75437d1488-206984385.