The History of Antiochus Epiphanes or the Institution of the Feast of Dedication / Megillath Antiyochus.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(INDIA).

Place

Bombay

Publication

1866

Description

Title-page in English, Hebrew and Marathi. Marathi text interspersed with Hebrew. Includes blessings for Chanukah.

references

Not listed in Ya’ari.

summary

Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurker (1834-1905) translated several works from Hebrew to Marathi, the indigenous language of the Bene-Israel Jews. He was Head Master of the David Sassoon Benevolent Institution, Fellow and Hebrew Examiner of the University of Bombay, and a Justice of the Peace. See H. S. Kehimkar, The History of the Bene-Israel of India (1937), pp. 69-70.

pp. 15, (1). Browned, expertly remargined with some minor loss. Original pink printed wrappers. 8vo.

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