Special Edition of La (Buena) Esperanza on the Occasion of its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1871-1896.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

(SMYRNA).

Place

Smyrna (Izmir)

Publication

1896

Description

Judeo-Español (Ladino) in Rashi script. Prefatory page in Osmanli (Turkish in Arabic characters). Frontispiece portrait of Editor Aaron de Joseph Chazan. On p. 25, handsome full-length portrait of R. Abraham Palache [son of R. Hayim Palache], Chief Rabbi of Smyrna. Appended full-page Hebrew genealogy of the distinguished Rabbinical Family Hazzan.

references

Yaar, Ladino 721.

summary

La (Buena) Esperanza was the central organ of the Smyrna community. This lavish special issue recounts the activities and achievements of the community over the previous quarter-century. See M. B. Lehmann, Ladino Rabbinic Literature & Ottoman Sephardic Culture (2004).

pp. 60, (2). Frontis remargined, wanting pp. 47-48. Original gilt printed wrappers bound in archival boards. Folio.

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