Tze’enah Ure’enah.

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $250

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author

JACOB BEN ISAAC OF JANOW

printer

Zekel b. Aaron

Place

Sulzbach

Publication

1799

Description

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. Woodcut illustrations within the text. The YIVO copy.

references

Vinograd, Sulzbach 481

summary

The most renowned Yiddish work of homiletical prose and particularly beloved among Jewish women over centuries. The Tze’enah Ure’enah is 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. 266. Browned and stained, some leaves marginally frayed. Renaissance/Spring binding. 4to

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