Massa Krim [Travels in Crimea]

DEINARD, EPHRAIM.

Warsaw

1877-78

FIRST EDITION

One of the earliest works by the prolific bibliographer and critic Ephraim Deinard (1846-1930), Massa Krim details the Author's finds during the half year he spent traveling the Crimean Peninsula in search of ancient Jewish artifacts both Rabbanite and Karaite. Bears endorsements of diverse array of scholars: Rabbis Chaim Chezkiyahu Medini of Krasobazar (author Sdei Chemed) and Chaim Berlin of Moscow; maskilic writers H.Z. Slonimsky, A.E. Harkavy, Mordechai Plungian, E.Z. Zweifel, Kalman Shulman; apostate Prof. Daniel Chwolsohn; and Gentile rabbinic scholar Dr. Hermann L. Strack