Meʼir Schön poetry book, 1900?-1914.
מאיר שאֶן ספר-שירים

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Schön, Meʼir.

Contributor:

Hekhal Shelomoh. Library, former owner.

היכל שלמה.

Language:

Hebrew

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Jews.

History.

Haskalah.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism.

Hebrew poetry, Modern.

Slovakia--Košice.

Slovakia.

Ungar, Moses, Rabbi (Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland), 1814-1890?--poetry.

Hebrew poetry, Modern--19th century.

Hebrew poetry, Modern--20th century.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Meditations--Poetry.

Haskalah--Slovakia--20th century.

Jews--Slovakia--Košice--20th century--History--Sources.

Local Subjects:

Ungar, Moses, Rabbi (Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland), 1814-1890?--poetry.

Genre:

Sources.

Meditations.

Poetry.

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts for publication

black-and-white photographs

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hekhal Shelomoh, Jerusalem, in the Sir Isaac Wolfson Central Rabbinic Library (Hebrew stamp on free-end); former call number "Hekhal Shlomo Jerusalem Israel Ms. Qu. 30".

Sold at Kedem Auctions, Sale 12 (October 21, 2010) lot 463.

Sold at Suissia Auction House, Auction 36 (June 29, 2021) lot 209.

Physical Description:

1 item (239 leaves) : paper ; 220 x 143 mm + 1 photograph

Other Title:

Imre shefer

אמרי שפר

Place of Publication:

1900?-1914.

Language Note:

In Hebrew; end inscriptions in Hungarian (f. 238v-239r).

Biography/History:

Itinerant Hebrew teacher and poet, likely in Slovakia (possibly Košice) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; traditionalist and likely anti-Neolog (introduction to this manuscript), maskil (he studied with Moses Ungar, rabbi and author in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, author of Shevil ha-Emunah, Der Stad der Religion (Krotoschin, 1862); f. 15r).

Summary:

This is a manuscript book of poetry by Meʼir Schön, likely a rendering of his archive of poems into a manuscript for publication. Introduction (f. 2r-13v) details the author's exhaustive toil of lifelong Hebrew study (he admired the contributions to the study of Hebrew of Naphtali Hirz Wessely, Joseph Kohen-Zedek, Avrom Ber Gotlober, Solomon Rubin, Isaac Baer Levinsohn, Max Emanuel Stern, among others (f. 7r; additionally quoting Mordecai b. Abraham Banet on f. 8r)). Poems include a memorial for his parents and teacher (f. 15r-16v), poems for holidays, meditations on old age and death, a long poem of homebuilding as a parable for life's toil (f. 59r-99r); a section called Shirat dodim contains poems written for friends and relatives (such as a poem for a friend on his fiftieth anniversary in the rabbinate; f. 115v); the names of the subjects are replaced by an ellipsis. An afterword indicates that the manuscript was completed on the eve of Rosh ha-Shanah 5674 (September 20, 1914). Written mostly in stanzas on commercial lined paper (binder holes in gutter), rebound in buckram; written in an Ashkenazic cursive script, with highlights in a square script; select words and accents vocalized.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 554.

OCLC:

1313965321