ROSENZWEIG, GERSON. Chamisha Vo'Eleph - One Thosand and Five Original Hebrew Epigrams. Volume I (all published)

Estimate: $120–$180
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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

A.H.Rosenberg

Place

New York

Publication

1903

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Goldman 425

summary

Rosenzeig "excelled as a poetic epigrammatist...with sparkling wit and keen humor" M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933) Vol. IV, pp.1050-51. "Few others demonstrated linguistic sharp-wittedness as Rosenzweig" J. Kabakoff, Pioneers of American Hebrew Literature (1966) p. 238

pp. xv,(1), 150, (2). Contemporary boards, spine defective. 8vo

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