The famous Azharot about the order and number of mitzvahs that the Sephardic community is accustomed to say on the holiday of Shavuot with the commentary ‘Petil Techelet’ – "it will clarify the intention of the poet and the opinions of those who opose him on the number of mitzvahs”
London, 1714.
Rare Prayer Book, listed by the Mifal HaBibliography according to the copy held at the British Library, not at the Israel National Library.
[4], 71 Leaves. 18 Cm,
Good condition, light stains, later binding with damaged spine.
Signature of Chaim Abraham Friedland 1891–1939), poet, short-story writer, and educator. Friedland, who was born in Hordok, near Vilna, immigrated to America at the age of 15. In 1911 he founded the National Hebrew School in New York. In 1921 he assumed the post of superintendent of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, and in 1924 was also appointed the first director of the Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education.
He was a leading member of the Jewish community in Cleveland and a champion of the community Jewish school which featured an intensive Hebraic curriculum and included a strong emphasis on the Zionist ideal. He wrote poems, short stories, and articles, edited educational texts, and published essays in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish on Hebrew literature. His poems and stories were collected in two volumes at the end of his life, Sonettot ("Sonnets, " 1939), and Sippurim ("Stories, " 1939), and in a posthumous volume of poems, Shirim ("Poems, " 1940). His Sippurim Yafim, stories designed for children, were reissued in three volumes by the Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education (1962). His narrative sonnets deal with the pathetic side of life, and his stories mainly portray American Jewish types.
Stamps of the National Hebrew School on East Broadway St, New York
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