OR ME'IR: KOLEL RESHIMAT SIFRE YISRA'EL, KITVE YAD VE-NIDPASIM, HA-NIMTSA'IM BE-VET OTSAR HA-SEFARIM HA-GADOL SHEL HA-HAKKHAM VA-MEHALEL, HA-SHOFET, HA-R. ME'IR ZULTSBERGER BE-FILADELFYA = OR MAYER: CATALOGUE OF THE OLD HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS OF THE LIBRARY OF HON. M. SULZBERGER OF PHILADELPHIA, PA

Deinard, E. (Ephraim)

Edité par New York; Deinard, E., 1896

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Original wraps. 8vo. 100 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Title in Hebrew and English, Hebrew text. "This bibliography [of Mayer Sulzberger's library of 28 mss. And about 400 volumes of rare books] is the first in the Hebrew language to be printed in this land. ' (p.6) . Deinard compiled it in eight days (KA) . Among the entries are thirty-three American imprints. Deinard bemoaned the fact that Jews cared little for their own literary heritage; rather than establish Jewish libraries, they sold all their books and manuscripts to gentile institutions. He felt that conditions in America were auspicious for the establishment of Jewish libraries, but with the exception of a handful of individuals, among them Sulzberger, wealthy Jews were not interested (pp. 5-6) . Sulzberger lated donated his own private library, amassed by Deinard, to JTSA and it provided the foundation of what would become the most important Judaica library in the western hemisphere. It was â Deinard's first major breakthrough in setting up a Hebrew Judaica collection' (Wilk, 122) . " (Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America, entry # 255) . Mayer Sulzberger "was closely associated with Isaac Leeser, and assisted that scholar in editing The Occident, contributing to it a partial translation of Maimonides' "Moreh Nebukim." After Leeser's death Sulzberger edited vol. xxvi. of The Occident. He was one of the founders of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, which he served as president; and he has taken great interest in the Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia, of which he has been vice-president since 1880. He was from the beginning (in 1888) chairman of the publication committee of the Jewish Publication Society of America; was one of the original trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund; and interested himself in the establishment of agricultural colonies at Woodbine, N. J., and in Connecticut.Sulzberger had one of the best private libraries in America; it contained a very large number of Hebraica and Judaica" (WIkipedia).Singerman 5095. Subjects: Hebrew imprints - Catalogs. Manuscripts, Hebrew - Catalogs. Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843- - Library - Catalogs. Original wraps/boards absent. Title page light wear to margin, institutional stamp on verso, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (AMR-39-51) xx. N° de réf. du vendeur 31443

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Titre : OR ME'IR: KOLEL RESHIMAT SIFRE YISRA'EL, ...

Éditeur : New York; Deinard, E.

Date d'édition : 1896

Reliure : Hardcover

Edition : 1st Edition