Tze’enah Ure’enah

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

Jacob ben Isaac of Janow.

printer

Z. Arnstein & Son

Place

Sulzbach

Publication

1836

Description

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. Many woodcut textual illustrations

references

Vinograd, Sulzbach 656

summary

A miscellany of Midrashic tales and exegetical commentary, woven around a Yiddish rendering and paraphrasing of the Pentateuch, Haphtaroth and Megiloth, the Tze’enah Ure’enah is the most renowned Yiddish work of homiletical prose and has been particularly beloved by generations of Jewish women. Written in a lucid, 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

ff. 256. Closely shaved, stained. Modern calf in elegant fitted solander-box. Large 4to

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