Sepher Nachalath Olamim. Prepared by Shmuel Yevnin.

Estimate: $100–$150
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(POLAND).

printer

Isaac Goldman

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1882

Description

First Edition. Opening pastedown inscribed by the author to Benjamin Schlesinger.

summary

Transcriptions of 334 Tombstones from Warsaw’s old Jewish Cemetery. Established in 1806, Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery contains hundreds of thousands of graves. A pantheon of Jewish heroes, it is celebrated for the diversity of those interred there, containing representatives of all streams of Polish Jewish life in the 19th and early 20th centuries; from leading Rabbis to artists, Zionists to Bundists.

pp. 112. Browned. Original printed boards, detached, stained. 8vo.

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