Hermalin (David Moyshe) Muhamad:
£650
A shtudium fun dem ershaynen, leben und thetigkayt fun dem Musulmanishen gezets-geber un die rezultaten fun zayn religyon
New York, M. Chinsky, 1898.
First edition. Printed in Yiddish. 8vo. Contemporary green cloth.
First edition of this Yiddish study of the Prophet Muhammad, written by the prolific journalist, novelist, and translator D. M. Hermalin (1865–1921). Beyond a biography of Muhammad and an outline of the Qur’an and Islam, the work includes chapters written from a distinctly Jewish perspective, such as on the Jewish communities of Mecca and Medina and on the Prophet’s conflicts with them. Hermalin, who also produced popular accounts of Jesus of Nazareth and Sabbatai Zevi, was a central figure in the intellectual life of New York’s Yiddish-speaking immigrant community, where he strove to place Jewish readers within a broader world culture. His choice of subject reflects both the fin-de-siècle vogue for comparative religious biography and Yiddish modernism’s cosmopolitan ambitions, which sought to introduce global figures, from Mohammed to Goethe, to an audience often excluded from such literature by language barriers.
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Small closed tear to top of title-page, with a few spots glue residue, note in pencil to p. 2, minor creasing to top corners of some pages, splitting to gutters between some of the pages, some overall toning but text is clean and complete, pastedowns affixed at an angle; binding with some rubbing, minor edge-wear and discolouration to spine and sections of the boards.
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