Auction 38 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture, Israeli and International Art

Collection of Handwritten Writings and Essays – Meir Hartiner

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Collection of writings, leaves and essay-drafts handwritten by Meir Hartiner, [1950s].
Writings about Jewish History, development of heresy into Christianity and the history of Christianity, writings about "the repentance of Jewish sages for boycotting the Son of God [Jesus], Zadok the Pharesee, and more. Most of the material is about the relations between the Jewish and Christian religions and it seems that it was meant to be the basis for a book by the title "New documents for the study of the Jewish religion".
Meir Hartiner (1881-1971) – Jewish educator and editor native of Galicia. Served as a teacher in schools in Tarnopol (Galicia), in Vienna and in Eretz Israel and contantly published articles, essays and translations in Hebrew newspapers and periodicals. His poems in Yiddish, for which he composed tunes, were very popular in the days prior to WW I. Hundreds of handwritten pages, leaves 16.5 cm. Overall good condition.