Deinard, Ephraim

MASA BA-HATSI HA-I KRIM:... VE-NOF TEVERYAH, MI-LEVO YAM HA-SHAHOR 'AD KETSEH YAM HA-AZOVI ... U-MATSAVAM HA-MEDINI VEHA-MUSARI. MASSA BAKHATSI GOI KRIM, T.E., OPISANIE KRIMSKAGO POLUOSTROVA; OPISANIE KRIMSKAGO POLUOSTROVA. COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES. [BOUND WITH] SEFER MILHEMET KRIM: YEKHALKEL KOROT KOL DIVRE HA-MILHAMAH ... ASHER LAHAMU MALKHE HA-BERIT 'AL HA-'IR SEVASTOPOL BI-SHENOT 1853-54-55-56; GAM ... TOLDOT ADMAT HA-'IR HA-ZOT TEREM HIVASDAH VE-AHARE KHEN, 'AD HA-YOM HA-ZEH מסע בחצי האי קרים :‏ ‏כולל מסעותי בחצי האי קרים ונוף טבריה, מלבוא ים השחור עד קצה ים האזאווי וערבת נאגאיסק ... ומצבם המדיני והמוסרי Масса бахацы гои Крымъ, т.е., Описаніе Крымскаго полуострова Описаніе Крымскаго полуострова [BOUND WITH] ספר מלחמת קרים יכלכל קורות כל דברי המלחמה ... אשר לחמו מלכי הברית על העיר סעוואסטאפאל בשנות 1853-54-55-56 ; גם ... תולדות אדמת העיר הזאת טרם הוסדה ואחרי כן, עד היום הזה

Varsha [Warsaw]: Druk fon A. Ginz, 1879-1880, 1879. Item #42683

Both 1st edition. Period boards,. 8vo, 116 + 44 + 98 + [2] pages. In Hebrew with the names of places explained in Yiddish or Russian. Titles translate as, “A Journey In the Crimean Peninsula: Including My Travels in the Crimean Peninsula and the Landscape of Tiberias, From the Entrance of the Black Sea to the End of the Sea of Azov and the Nagaysk Steppe... And Their Political and Moral Situation” and “The Crimean War Book Containing All The Stories of the War ... Which the Kings of the Alliance Fought Over he City Of Sevastopol in the Years 1853-54-55-56; Also ... The History of the Land of this City from Before it was Founded Until This Day.”
Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) “was a bookseller, bibliographer, publicist, polemicist, historian, memoirist, author, editor, and publisher. He produced some 70 volumes whose subjects range from Jewish history and antiquities (especially of the Crimea, Russia, America, and The Holy Land), to treatises against Hasidism, Christianity, and Communism, parodies, medieval and modern Hebrew literature, Jewish religion, and especially booklore.
Deinard's antiquarian activities, which involved constant travel throughout Europe, the Orient, and America, gave him an acquaintance with scholars, private collectors, fellow booksellers, and libraries. He came into contact and conflict with numerous Hebrew writers and Jewish communal and political figures. His wide-ranging knowledge and experience are fully reflected in his own voluminous writings, mostly in Hebrew, produced over more than half a century. His scope of interests, the intensity of his sentiments, the acerbity of his remarks, all coupled with his bibliophily, render Deinard's works a source of contemporary Jewish historical and literary controversy, as seen in the margins of the Hebrew-reading world, before and after World War I…..
Deinard is remembered today as both a bookman and a prolific polemicist, two careers inextricably linked in his singular personality. Indeed, his works are devoted in large part to religious, political, and even bibliographical polemics. He attacked Hasidism and Christianity in equal measure, with plenty of bile left over for Communism, Reform Judaism, Kabbalah, Jewish apostates, and Karaism….
Surviving copies of Deinard's many works are scattered in libraries around the globe. No library holds a complete set, and some of his books are exceedingly rare.” (Brad Sabin Hill, Deinard Online)
SUBJECT(S): Crimea (Ukraine) -- Description and travel. Ukraine. OCLC: 959600278 (Masa? Ba-Hatsi Ha-I Krim) and OCLC: 19144502 (Sefer Milhemet Krim). Foxing to paper, boards worn with hinges somewhat crudely repaired and spine rebacked. But solid, a good copy thus. (EE-7-8-PFFIINNQQ).

Price: $225.00