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Shmuel Yosef Fünn. Kirya Ne’emanah [a history of the Jews of Vilna]First Edition. Hebrew ...

(VILNA)
Shmuel Yosef Fünn. Kirya Ne’emanah [a history of the Jews of Vilna]


First Edition. Hebrew text, with some French and Russian.
pp. viii, xii, ix-xxiv, 333 (complete). Lightly foxed and stained. Previous owners’ stamps, including that of a “Mordechai Friedman of Mehzeritch,” author of the Me’orer Yeshenim. Modern hardcover boards with spine support. 8vo. Vinograd, Vilna 1074.
Vilna: Yosef Reuven Romm 1860
An important and thorough scholarly study. Shmuel Yosef Fünn (1818-90) was a leading figure of the Russian Haskalah and a founder of the Hibat Tzion Zionist movement, having shifted from being a Lithuanian-style Talmudic scholar.
An important and thorough scholarly study. Shmuel Yosef Fünn (1818-90) was a leading figure of the Russian Haskalah and a founder of the Hibat Tzion Zionist movement, having shifted from being a Lithuanian-style Talmudic scholar.