Chamishah Chumshei Torah - Sepher Bereishith [Book of Genesis, with rabbinic commentaries].

Estimate

$600–$900

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(SOVIET UNION).

printer

Omanut

Place

Moscow

Publication

1918

summary

Likely the first Jewish text issued in the newly formed Soviet Union. This edition of the Chumash was issued in Moscow, immediately after the October Revolution, the beginning of a very trying period in Russian-Jewish history. The publishing house Omanut was headed by Rosalia Gillelovna Zlatopolsky (Shoshana Persitz, 1892-1969), an activist associated with Tarbut, the movement dedicated to the dissemination of Hebrew culture. One of just a very few editions of the Chumash printed in the Soviet Union.

pp. 244. Browned, short tears to pp. 25-34 neatly taped. Original boards. 4to.

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