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"HaKoss" – Naphtali Herz Imber – Hebrew Translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – New-York, 1905
"HaKoss" / The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into Hebrew by Naphtali Herz Imber "author of HaTikva". New-York: S. Levine, [1905?]. English and Hebrew.?Poems by the well-known Persian poet Omar Khayyam, translated into Hebrew by Naphtali Herz Imber. Accompanied by an English translation by Edward Fitzgerald. The book opens with a printed dedication by Herz Imber to Judge Mayer Sulzberger (English), foreword by Joseph Jacobs and a poem by George Alexander Kohut "for Naphtali Herz Imber".?The poet Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909), composer of "HaTikva", was the first to translate poems by Omar Khayyam into Hebrew. He worked diligently on the translation at an old age, while staying in New-York. At the time he was penniless and lived on a monthly allowance donated by Judge Mayer Sulzberger, to whom he dedicated this book. ?XIV, [1], 42 pp [missing a portrait at the beginning of the book]. 19 cm. Good condition. A few stains, creases and tears. Ex-library copy (a booklet on the inside front binding, stamps and pen-writing on the margin of the title page). Erased writing on the title page. Cardboard binding.
Goldman 435.
