Luah erets Yisra'el shimushi vesafruti lishnat 5660 [= 1900] belivyat temunot vetziyurim pitukhey etz ne'eralj al yedey Avraham Moshe Luncz orekh ha"Yerushalayim" Shana Khamishi [=5th year]

Luncz, A.M. (Abraham Moses)(December 9, 1854 Kaunas, aka Kovno, Lithuania - 1918 Eretz Israel)

Published by Haorekh, Jerusalem, Eretz Israel, Ottoman Empire, 1899

About this Item

In Hebrew. 16 unnumbered pages followed by page numbered yud17 zayin to kaf dalet (=17 to 33unnumbered page, 186 pages. 32 pages. Complete but pagination is not ideal. 168 x 105 mm. On title page and one interior page: Purple ink oval rubber stamp impression of early owner:: Mordechai Dov Kramer, Jerusalem, Eretz Israel" Rubber stamp Abraham Moses Luncz (December 9, 1854 Kovno, Llithuania -1918) immigrated to Eretz Israel at age 14 and lived in Jerusalem. He suffered from early blindness and founded, together with Dr. Koisewski, an institution for the blind in Jerusalem. Through his guidebooks and other works that he published, he disseminated valuable information on Israel's history and geography. These included Netibot Ziyyon we-Yerushalalyim: Topography of Jerusalem and Its Surroundings (vol. i, 1876). Jerusalem, Jahrbuch zur Beförderung einer Wissenschaftlich Genauen Kenntnis des Jetzigen und des Alten Palästina (Hebrew and German, 6 vols., 1881-1903. Literarischer Palästina-Almanach (Hebrew; since 1894). He owned a Hebrew printing press in the Ezrat Yisrael neighborhood, across the street from his own home in Even Yisrael. From there he issued a number of works by Jewish scholars, Estori Farhi's Kaftor wa-Ferah and Josef Schwarz's Tebu'ot ha-Arez being the first works published. He also produced a travel guide to Israel. In 1904, he had in press a new edition of the Jerusalem Talmud with commentary and introduction. Seller Inventory # 016688

Bibliographic Details

Title: Luah erets Yisra'el shimushi vesafruti ...

Publisher: Haorekh, Jerusalem, Eretz Israel, Ottoman Empire

Publication Date: 1899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good