Auction 7
Important Judaica: Hebrew Books, Manuscripts & Letters, Jewish Art.
By Taj Art
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Feb 28, 2023
16 Betzalel st. Jerusalem 94591, Israel
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LOT 30:
Kol Yaakov. Venice, 1658. First Edition. With Lamentation about the Calamities of Tach V’Tat. Kabbalah. Rare!
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Kol Yaakov. Venice, 1658. First Edition. With Lamentation about the Calamities of Tach V’Tat. Kabbalah. Rare!
Sefer Kol Yaakov is a compilation of homilies according to Kabbalah, authored by Rabbi Yaakov Kapil Margulies of Vladimir. (Rabbi Yaakov was a prisoner of war and was taken from Poland to Turkey. Eventually, in Constantine, the Jewish community redeemed him.
The book opens with the author’s introduction about the pogroms in Poland. At the end of the book appears a moving lamentation “On the murder of the sages of Poland” on the pogroms of Tach V’Tat.
Venice, 1658. Vindramin Press. First edition.
[1], 11, [1] leaves. Very good condition. High quality, thick paper. Renewed, lovely binding (with a library label).
Otzar Hasefer Computerized Database, No. 42588.
Found in collections of rare items in the National Library. In the copy found in Gershom Shalom’s Library, is written that this composition is most rare.
This is a most rare first edition, this copy particularly so, due to its outstanding condition.
