Solomon Judah Friedlander. Masechta Zevachim / Eirichin min Talmud Yerushalmi. *AND:Masechta Chulin / Bechoroth min Talmud Yerushalmi. Both with the commentary Cheshek Shlomo.

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM Pseudo).

Y. Vider

Szinervaralja

1907-1909

Together, two works bound in one volume. Each with two titles printed in red and black. Frontispiece illustration of the “manuscript” in first part. A wide-margined copy.

A literary forger and sometime scholar, this was Friedlander’s most audacious publication based on the fictitious discovery of a 13th century Spanish manuscript. One of the most colorful characters in the rogue’s gallery of Rabbinic literature is undoubtedly the man who called himself “Solomon Judah Algazi Friedlander.” This unlikely figure arrived in Hungary at the turn of the 20th-century, presenting himself as a Sephardic Jew from the Orient, who had made a startling discovery: A manuscript containing the long-lost Jerusalem Talmud on the Order of Kodashim. Although initially greeted with great enthusiasm, doubts soon arose as to the authenticity of the work, and aspersions were cast upon the moral character of the enigmatic Herr Friedlander.