TSEMAH TSADIK: SEFER KATAN HA-KOMEH VE-GADOL HOKHMAH MELAMED ENOSH BINAH VE-HOKHMAH ... / MEHA-RAV YEHUDAH ARYEH MODENA. צמח צדיק: ספר קטן הקומה וגדול חכמה מלמד אנוש בינה וחכמה ... / מהרב יהודה אריה מודינא.
Nuyork, Bi-Defus A. H. Rozenberg [Rosenberg], 1899. Item #40443
1st American Edition. Original boards. 8vo. 77 pages with illustrations and portraits, 21 cm. Singerman 5629, Goldman 706. In Hebrew and English. Title translates to “A Righteous Offspring: A Small Treatise on Ethics and Morality with Explanatory Illustrations. ” Based of the original 1600 work by Rabbi Leon Modena with beautiful accompanying woodcuts. Druckerman was a longtime Hebrew and Yiddish publisher and bookseller. See M. Steinschneider, 'Jehudah (Leon) Modena und Fior de virtu MGWJ 41 (1896-1897) : 324- 326" (Howard Adelman and Benjamin Ravid, "Historical Notes , " in M. Cohen, 224; “Druckerman records the original language as Latin [p. XIII]) . The American edition was ‘reprinted and editited in the form of the first edition ... With additional references and notes, revised and supplemented with theauthors [sic] biography and portrait. By Jacob Druckerman’ (p. [3]) . Druckerman did not have access to the Vilna edition (p. XIIIn) . [Tsemah Tsadik] was published after Dmckennan died (by his sons? ) (p. [2]) …. On [Tsemah Tsadik] and Modena's translation, see M. Cohen, 124, 217, 224, 268. Kaganoff (1989-90) , 58 misrecords the editor of the American edition as A. H. Rosenberg” (Goldman 706) . SUBJECTS: Jewish ethics - early works to 1800. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide (OCLC: 22234567) . Very good condition. (RAB-65-5-BDMXLE-).
Price: $120.00