Mitzpah, monthly anthology (dzurnal) with essays about Jews and Judaism, past and present. With paintings and pictures. Four issues for four months of 1885…published by Alexander Halevi Zederboim. Printed by Zvi Hirsch Pines, St. Petersburg, 1885.
A volume compiling three issues of the monthly "Mitzpe" edited by Alexander Halevi Zederboim, a Jewish author and journalist, founder of "Hamelitz" periodical.
The volume features essays, stories and poems on Judaism, the Jewish congregation and Eretz Israel, by some of the prominent figures of the Jewish Enlightenment period and of the Hebrew Revival period, among them: Yehiel Michal Pines, Zvi Hacohen Shershevsky, Yahalel (Yehudah Levib Levin), Avraham Eliyahu Harkavy, Shneur Zaksh, Naftali Hertz Weisel, and others. With several picture-plates: portraits of Moses Montefiore, Dr. Elazar Halevi, Lord Rothschild and others; illustrations of Eretz Israel views (Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed); Moses Montefiore's estate; and more.
Irregular pagination. Volume 24 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Spine with rough adhesive tape. Worn at ends.