Charles David Spivak letter to Mayer Sulzberger, 10 November 1898.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Spivak, C. D. (Charles D.), 1861-1927, author, correspondent.

Contributor:

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, correspondent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923--Correspondence.

Sulzberger, Mayer.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kestenbaum & Company (New York), Auction 80 (March 28, 2019) lot 145.

Physical Description:

2 leaves : paper ; 28 x 21 cm.

Production:

Denver, November 10, 1898.

Contained In:

contained in : Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923. Collection of Mayer Sulzberger material. 31198068710149

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ukrainian-Jewish medical doctor and writer, born in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1882; studied and practiced medicine in Philadelphia, 1886-1904, and then Denver from 1904 until his death; he is known for being one of the founders the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society tuberculosis sanatorium, and editor of The Sanatorium.

Summary:

Letter from Dr. Charles David Spivak to Judge Mayer Sulzberger (on the stationary of "Medical Libraries, edited by C.D. Spivak, M.D., 3 Denison Bld."), thanking Sulzberger for his inquiry on his work about medicine of the Talmud; updating him on progress, that "my raw material as far as the Talmud Babli is concerned will son be complete; it will remain for me to "wade through" the Yerushalmi and the Midrashim; I intend to take in all the writings of the ancients". Spivak mentions being held back by his not posessing a set of Tamud in "this western town", requiring the works of Wunderbar, Dubnov, Rabinowitz, and lexographical works of Jastrow and Kohut. Autograph following letter text; postscript below.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Charles David Spivak letter to Mayer Sulzberger, 10 November 1898. (UPenn CAJS ARC Ms. 25.1.13). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1407826832