Baruch Halevi Yafith. Mein Zeydeh's Hagodeh, oder a Pogrom oyf dem Afikoman [satirical Passover Hagadah]. With notes by "Ma'aseh Alfas" [pseudonym of Benzion Alfas]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(PARODY).

printer

Rosenkranz and Schriftsetzer

Place

Vilna

Publication

1908

Description

FIRST EDITION. Yiddish text.

summary

A celebration of Jewish history through the ages and the miracle of Jewish survival despite recurrent anti-Semitism. Footnotes in Hebrew refer to Rabbinic literature. The author, Benzion Alfas (1850-1940), was a student of the famed "kibbutz" of Eishishok and of the Gaon's kloiz in Vilna. See Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur, Vol. I (1956) cols. 118-120.

pp. 40. Browned. Original marbled boards. 8vo.

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