Postcard listing imported Hebrew books and prices.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Druckerman, Simon, author, correspondent.

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Booksellers and bookselling--20th century.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Jewish booksellers--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Jewish booksellers.

Jews--Massachusetts--Springfield--20th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Genre:

postcards.

Penn Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Kenneth Schoen, 2023.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 142 x 90 mm.

Production:

New York, Aug 25 1922

Language Note:

In Yiddish; address in English.

Summary:

Postcard written by S. Druckerman מוכר ספרים, Bookseller, Publisher, and Importer, 50 Canal Street, New York, addressed to Joseph Freedman, 68 Calahan, Springfield MA, listing priced ("איך קען גיווען פילגענדע פרייזע") for sets of ʻEin Yaʻaḳov in the recent Vilna edition (offered in five and three volume sets), the Boston edition (1921), and sets of Mishnayot (one printed by Rosenkrants, another with Tosafot Yom tov, another with Tiferet Yiśraʼel). Written in ten lines in a 20th century cursive Yiddish script.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Postcard listing imported Hebrew books and prices, 25 August 1922. (CAJS ARC Misc. Mss. 000.218.3). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1377669997