BAMERKUNGEN TSU IN SHLIHES: LIDER UNTERVEGS FUN ZALMAN SHAZAR באמערקונגען צו אין שליחות לידער אונטערוועגס פון זלמן שזר
Montevideo [Uruguay]: Zeri'ah, 1972. Item #43491
First edition. Original paper wrappers, 8vo, 19 pages. Includes illustrations. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Notes On Assignment, Poetry Pathways from Zalman Shazar.”
Commentary on Zalman Shazar’s “On Assignment, Poetry Pathways” by Uruguayan teacher and writer Isaac Vainsencher.
Zalman Shazar (1889-1974) “was a researcher in Jewish history and a journalist, born (with the surname Rubashov) in Mir, Byelorussia. He descended from a well-pedigreed Hassidic family….From late 1912 he was studying history, biblical scholarship, and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg, Strasbourg, and Berlin.
From early on he stood with labor Zionism, was a pupil and collaborator with Ber Borokhov, a builder of the Labor Zionist party, and a member of its highest bodies in Europe. From 1924 he was on the highest institutions of Mapai (Workers’ Party of the Land of Israel), Histadrut, and throughout Israel. He was elected in 1963 as the third president of the State of Israel.
He took up research on Jewish history, especially Messianic movements among Jews, Bible scholarship, and old sources of the Yiddish language. In addition, he was active in community and public affairs work. In his historical research, Shazar was the pioneer of a new approach to the Shabbatai Zvi movement, seeing in it a longing of the Jewish people for redemption in the Land of Israel. Gershom Scholem, the scholar of Kabbalah, writes: ‘I am certain that I and others of that generation were greatly inspired, consciously and unconsciously, by the seeds that he sowed in us.’” (Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur)
SUBJECT(S): Jews in Uruguay. OCLC: 1011226101. OCLC locates only 2 copies worldwide (Harvard, NYBC), both in Massachusetts.
Very Good Condition. And Excellent Copy of this Rare Uruguayan Yiddish Imprint. (PSB-1-19).
Price: $275.00