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Eben Saphir. Beschreibung der Reisen des Rabbi Jacob Saphir aus Jerusalem durch Egypten, Arabien, Jemen, Aden, Ostindien (Vorder- und Hinterindien) und Australien. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Geschichte und des Zustandes der in den genannten Ländern wohnenden Israeliten, sammt Copien alter Grabmäler, Lieder, Erzählungen ; auch allerlei Forschungen auf historisch-religiösem Gebiete. II. Teil [VOLUME 2 ONLY] [The book is in HEBREW]

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In Hebrew. [11], 237, [1] pages. 215 x 140 mm. Beschreibung der Reisen des Rabbi Jacob Saphir aus Jerusalem durch Egypten, Arabien, Jemen, Aden, Ostindien (Vorder- und Hinterindien) und Australien. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Geschichte und des Zustandes der in den genannten Ländern wohnenden Israeliten, sammt Copien alter Grabmäler, Lieder, Erzählungen; auch allerlei Forschungen auf historisch-religiösem Gebiete. II. Teil [BOOK TWO ONLY] The author, Jacob Saphir (1822-1886), was a Meshulach and traveler of Rumanian Jewish descent, born in Ashmyany, government of Wilna. While still a boy he went to Ottoman Palestine with his parents, who settled at Safed, and at their death in 1836, he moved to Jerusalem. In 1848, he was commissioned by the Jewish community of the latter city to travel through the southern countries to collect alms for the poor of Jerusalem. In 1854 he undertook a second tour to collect funds for the construction of the Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter which led him in 1859 to Yemen, British India, Egypt, and Australia. The result of this journey was his momentous ethnographic work, Even Sapir, a travel diary in which he gave the history, and a vivid though uncritical description of the condition of the Jews in the above-mentioned countries. Saphir published also Iggeret Teman (Wilna, 1868, consciously titled after Rambam's letter of centuries earlier), a work on the appearance in Yemen of the pseudo-Messiah Judah ben Shalom, and which was largely responsible for ending Judah ben Shalom's career. Saphir died in Jerusalem in 1886. Saphir was the first Jewish researcher to recognize the significance of the Cairo geniza, as well as the first to publicize the existence of the Midrash ha-Gadol, both later studied with great panache by Solomon Schechter. Sapir also did research on Yanover, Palestinian and Greek etrogs, etc. This newly rebound volume has the bookplate of Nehemiah Shmuel Leibowtiz. This bookplate (ex libris) which was affixed to the earlier, detached original board, and has has been repasted here. Nehemiah Samuel Leibowitz (3 January 1862 -12 June 1939), was born in Kolno, Lomza District in the Russian Empire (now Poland ). He studied with his father Isaac (son of Shlomo Ben-Efraim) Leibowitz, and then with Rabbi Eliyahu Chasid. In 1881 he emigrated to the United States , and lived initially in Newark , New Jersey and later moved to New York . He became a diamond trader, had scholarly Jewish pursuits, visited Eretz Israel in the 1920s where he, like Ephraism Deinard, with whom he crossed intellectual swords, he published some of his books. He tried settling in Eretz Israel but eventually returned to the U.S. and to his children. He wrote many Judaica related books, often in very limited editions. He and another writer and bibliophile, Ephraim Deinard, who was also a book dealer, often disagreed in print and both of their works provide fascinating reading. Nº de ref. del artículo: 008137

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