HARVOT YERUSHALEM (HORVOT YERUSHALAYIM)
Jerusalem : Defus Salomon. 1928. Item #24406
(FT) 8vo. 59 pages. In Hebrew. Second edition. SUBJECT(S) : Jews - Jerusalem - history -- 17th century; Jerusalem - history; Governors - Jerusalem - biography; Muhammed ibn Farrukh, fl. 1635; Jerusalem - ethnic relations. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Rivlin (1889-1942) was an "historian and journalist in Erez Israel. Rivlin was born in Jerusalem into one of its old established families. He went into business and then became the secretary of the United Old Age Home in Jerusalem. As a young man, he became a correspondent for the New York Yiddish paper, Morning Journal, and also published studies on the history of Jewish settlement in Erez Israel, Jerusalem in particular, and in neighboring countries. In this field, Rivlin's major achievement was his revised and enlarged edition of Aryeh Leib Frumkin's Toledot Hakhmei Yerushalayim 1490-1870, which he expanded into a history of all Jewish settlement in Erez Israel. Rivlin also published selections from the Pentateuch commentary by the 16th-century Jerusalem rabbi and physician Raphael Mordecai Malkhi, Likkutim mi-Perush ha-Torah shel R. M. Malkhi; a biography of Joseph Sundel Salant; a new edition of the 17th-century work on Jerusalem, Horvot Yerushalayim; and Sefer ha-Yahas le-Mishpahat Rivlin u-Mishpahat ha-Gra mi-Vilna. His collection of material on Erez Israel in the responsa literature remained unpublished. " (2007, EJ) Ex library. Pages tanned, good condition. (HebLit-4-4).
Price: $100.00