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Koheleth America, Ephraim Deinard, St. Louis 1926

קהלת אמעריקא - First Edition - Polemic

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  • Lot Number 53053
  • Title (English) Koheleth America
  • Title (Hebrew) קהלת אמעריקא
  • Note First Edition - Polemic
  • Author Ephraim Deinard
  • City St. Louis
  • Publisher Moinester Printing Co.
  • Publication Date 1926
  • Estimated Price - Low 500
  • Estimated Price - High 1,000

  • Item # 2298266
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Physical Description

Revised and greatly expanded edition. portrait, iv, 71; [2], 151, [5] pp., 270:190 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining, printed on heavy paper. A very good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed.

Limited to 300 copies.

 

Detail Description

Bibliography of Hebrew books printed in America, preceded by a virulent polemic attack on all the groups he dislikes. Printed in honor of his 80th birthday.

Ephraim Deinard, (1846–1930), bibliographer and Hebrew author was born in Sasmakken, Latvia, Deinard wandered in his youth, collecting ancient manuscripts and books in many countries, and then established a bookshop in Odessa. In 1897 he tried unsuccessfully to found an agricultural settlement in Nevada (U.S.). An active Zionist, he settled in Palestine in 1913 where he investigated the possibilities of Jewish settlement. After being expelled by the Turks in 1916 he returned to the United States and continued his bibliographical work. His two most noteworthy bibliographical works are Or Mayer: Catalogue of the Old Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Library of the Hon. Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia (1896) and Koheleth America (1926), a listing of Hebrew books published in America from 1735 to 1926. The first part of the latter work contains essays on the state of Hebrew literature in America, which are written in his unadorned, but typically acerbic, style. He laid the foundations of the Hebrew book and manuscript collections of the Library of Congress with the financial aid of Jacob Schiff. A violent polemicist on many controversial subjects, he attacked Reform Judaism, Hasidism, Christianity, and Karaism. Deinard was a prolific Hebrew writer, producing more than 50 books and pamphlets often signed with his pseudonym, Adir.

 

Hebrew Description

בשני חלקים. חלק א יכיל מאמרים אודות הספרות בכלל ובאמעריקא בפרט, וחלק ב יכיל רשימת כל הספרים אשר נדפסו בארצות הברית מראשית יסוד דפוס עברי בארץ הזאת בשנת תצ"ה >1735<, עד שנת תרפ"ו >1926<, ובקרת קצרה על רוב הספרים, מאת אפרים דיינארד ... זכרון למלאות שמונים שנה לחיי המחבר בט"ו אייר תרפ"ו ...

בחלק ב רשימה של 989 ספרים. נדפסו 300 טפסים. עיין: יעקב קבקוב, קהלת אמריקה, יד לקורא, זט, תשל"ז, עמ' 82-79.

 

Bibliographic References:

EJ; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000125914