Sefer Shivḥe Baʻal Shem Ṭov : Ḳuenṭos maravilyozos e ermozos ḳe ezo el Rav sanṭo i puvliḳado Yiśraʼel ez'o de Eliʻezer, in lah sivdad de Mezibuz de lah Mosḳofeyah.
‏ספר שבחי בעל שם טוב :‏ ‏קואינטוס מאראב׳ילייזוס אי אירמוזוס קי איז׳ו אל רב סאנטו אי פוב׳ליקאדו ישראל איז׳ו די אליעזר אין לה סיבדאד די מעזיבוז די לה מוסקופיאה.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finzi, Judah, active 19th century, former owner.

Perets, Preciado Mosheh, former owner.

Alsayag, Mercado, former owner.

Finzi, Judah, active 19th century, translator.

Dov Baer ben Samuel, of Linits, compiler.

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Judeo-Spanish Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Shivḥe ha-Beshṭ. Judeo-Spanish. Judah Finzi.

Language:

Ladino

Subjects (All):

Baʻal Shem Ṭov, approximately 1700-1760--Legends.

Baʻal Shem Ṭov.

Hasidim--Legends.

Hasidim.

Ladino literature.

Physical Description:

[4], 84 leaves ; 17 cm

Manufacture:

Esṭanpado in lah Serbeyah [Belgrade, Serbia] : [printer not identified], 5612 [1851 or 1852]

איסטנפאדו אין לה סירבייאה : [חמו"ל], 5612

Language Note:

Text in Judeo-Spanish.

Notes:

Originally compiled by Dov Baer ben Samuel of Linits; translated and adapted by Judah Finzi of Sarajevo (title page verso; each copy hand-inscribed with translator's note; see Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, 202781).

165 stories from Shivḥe ha-Beshṭ (see: Šmid, Katja. Ladino Rabbinic Works Published in Belgrade : A Rich Jewish Past on its way to Oblivion, in Balkania 2015); with additions written by the translator from a grandson of Baʻal Shem Ṭov in Sarajevo; see Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare BM755.I8 S45 1852: Complete; purchased at auction (Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), auction 023 lot 370); Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund. Inscribed by Preciado Mosheh Perets ("אני הצעיר פריסייאדו משה פרץ.."), Mercado Alsayag ("מירקאדו די מיסי' ... אלסייג"); inscribed by the translator on the title page verso.

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Belgrade 23

OCLC:

890651562

Online:

The Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund Home Page