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In Hebrew, with 2 pages in English, in addition to the Hebrew version here, praising Hebert Samuel, who had just been appointed as the British High Commissioner for Palestine. (4), 100 pages. 233 x 160 cm. WorldCat: Libraries worldwide that own item: 4. Deinard dedicates the book to the British High Commissioner Herbert Samuel. Samuel held that post 1920-1925. Though Jewish, Samuel 1. Appointed the rabid anti-Semite and Hitlerite, Haj Amin Al Husseini as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. 2. Supported Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. 3. Said of Hitler: Unlike Napoleon, Hitler is a man with a conscience. 4. Samuel justified to his Christian friends his eating kosher food by saying he was doing so out of deference to his wife. God save us from Jews like Herbert Samuel. Ephraim Deinard (1846-1930) was "born in Sasmakken, Latvia. Deinard wandered in his youth, collecting ancient manuscripts and books in many countries, and then established a bookshop in Odessa. In 1897 he tried unsuccessfully to found an agricultural settlement in Nevada (U. S.). An active Zionist, he settled in Palestine in 1913 where he investigated the possibilities of Jewish settlement. After being expelled by the Turks in 1916 he returned to the United States and continued his bibliographical work. His two most noteworthy bibliographical works are Or Mayer: Catalogue of the Old Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Library of the Hon. Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia (1896) and Koheleth America (1926), a listing of Hebrew books published in America from 1735 to 1926. The first part of the latter work contains essays on the state of Hebrew literature in America, which are written in his unadorned, but typically acerbic, style. He laid the foundations of the Hebrew book and manuscript collections of the Library of Congress with the financial aid of Jacob Schiff. A violent polemicist on many controversial subjects, he attacked Reform Judaism, Hasidism, Christianity, and Karaism. Deinard was a prolific Hebrew writer, producing more than 50 books and pamphlets often signed with his pseudonym, Adir. These included Toledot Even Reshef (1879; a biography of Abraham Firkovich, whom he knew in the Crimea); Sefer Massa Krim (1878; on travels in Crimea); Massale-Erez Kedem (1883; travels in Palestine and Egypt); Sefer Miflagot be-Yisrael (1899; on the Subbotniki and Hasidim) ; Zikhronot Bat Ammi (1920; a history of Russian Jewry over the previous 70 years). He also published several short-lived Hebrew and Yiddish journals, among them Ha-Le'ummi, one of the earliest Hebrew periodicals in America.". Seller Inventory # 015288
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Title: Arukhat Bat Ami : hahakhanot leKongress ...
Publisher: Ephraim Deinard [1920], 85 Arlington Avenue, Arlington, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
