Lot 149
Nine Humorous Booklets for Purim - Eastern Europe, Late 19th Century
Nine humorous booklets in the format of a Gemara tractate. Warsaw, Vilnius, Odessa and Berdychiv, 1878-1901. Hebrew.
* "Purim Tractate from the Talmud of Drunkards". Warsaw, 1885. * "Tractate of the Poor from the Talmud of the Lowly", [apparently written by Isaac Meir Dick]. Vilnius, 1878. * "Hagaddah for Pupils of the Beit Midrash", by Eliyahu Hayim Seyunchik. Warsaw, 1899. * "Tractate of (New) Manners", by Avraham Katliyer. Warsaw, 1898. * "Tractate of America, from the Yankee Talmud", by Gershon Rosenzweig. Vilnius, 1894. * "Tractate Shtarot", [by Avraham Abba Rakovsky]. Warsaw, 1894. * "New Glory for Purim", by Tuvia Feder. [Krakow, 1890]. * "Haggadah for Melamdim", by Levi Reuven Simmlin. Odessa, 1886. * "Tractate Socharim", by Avraham Shlomo Melamed. Berdichev, 5661 [1901] (on title page: 5660).
Five of the booklets are bound together; four are detached. Covers missing from some. Size and condition vary (most are approx. 21.5 cm). Fair overall condition. Stains and foxing. Worming. Some closed and open tears at margins.
Provenance: Shlomo Shva collection.
