SHEM HAGADOLIM HA-HADASH: A) MAARECHET GADOLIM, B) MAARECHET SEFARIM
No Place (Germany?) , No Publisher, N.D. Item #38255
Original orange boards with black spine and lettering illustrated with decorative frame. 8vo. 130 + 92 pages; 21.5 cm. Written in Hebrew. Almost certainly an early post-war offset reproduction for Sherit Ha-Petah survivors for use in the DP camps, based on binding, paper, and quality of offset printing. We, however, found no reference to this edition of this work, presumably very scarce. Haim Yosef David Azulai, “commonly known as the Hida, was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings” (Wikipedia, 2016) . This book contains the names of authors of Jewish texts. Aaron Walden, a “Polish Jewish Talmudist, editor, and author” used Azulai’s book as a model, dividing his book into two parts: “‘Ma’areket Gedolim, ’ being an alphabetical list of the names of authors and rabbis, mostly those that lived after Azulai, but also including many of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were omitted by Azulai; and ‘Ma’areket Safarim’ an alphabetical list of book-titles” (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECT(S) : Rabbinics, Holocaust. OCLC lists no holdings. Pages are brown and fragile. Blank endpapers are loose but present. Library markings. Some edgewear and rubbing. Good condition thus. (Holo2-134-8).
Price: $100.00