Shmuel Yosef Fünn. Kirya Ne’emanah [a history of the Jews of Vilna]

Estimate: $120–$180
Hammer price: $140

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author

(VILNA)

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Yosef Reuven Romm

Place

Vilna

Publication

1860

Description

First Edition. Hebrew text, with some French and Russian.

references

Vinograd, Vilna 1074.

summary

An important and thorough scholarly study. Shmuel Yosef Fünn (1818-90) was a leading figure of the Russian Haskalah and a founder of the Hibat Tzion Zionist movement, having shifted from being a Lithuanian-style Talmudic scholar.

pp. viii, xii, ix-xxiv, 333 (complete). Lightly foxed and stained. Previous owners’ stamps, including that of a “Mordechai Friedman of Mehzeritch,” author of the Me’orer Yeshenim. Modern hardcover boards with spine support. 8vo.

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