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

Auction 62 · Lot 158

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

Estimate
$700–$900
Hammer price
$800

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM.

printer

Y. Vider

Place

Szinervaralja

Publication

1907-1909

Description

Together, two volumes. Each with two titles printed in red and black. Frontispiece illustration of the “manuscript” in first part.

summary

A literary forger and sometime scholar, this was Friedlander’s most audacious publication based on the fictitious discovery of a 13th-century Spanish manuscript containing the long-lost Jerusalem Talmud on the Order of Kodashim.
Browned. Original boards. Folio.
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