Pretty copy in the original parchment binding, with the author’s signature: Mohar Yisrael, a Dutch-Hebrew dictionary. Amsterdam 1741.

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Thick volume entitled Mohar Yisrael, in Dutch: De bruidschat Israels, of, Onderwys der Hebreeuwsche spraak -kunst : met twee bygevoegde woordenboeken / opgestelt door Eleasar Soesman voorzien met een getuigschrift van Cornelius Hugo Vonk. In English: The Dowry of Israel, or, an Education on the Art of Hebrew speech by Rabbi Eliezer Zussman Redelsheim (see below). Composed in three sections: the first is on Hebrew grammar, while the next two sections are a Dutch-Hebrew and Hebrew-Dutch dictionary. Separate title page for each section.

Only edition. Catalogued as rare by the NLI. The first title page is in red ink. Handsome parchment binding with gilded inscriptions, seem to be from the period, overall good condition.

The back of the first title page after the introduction has
the author’s handwritten signature (Rabbi Eliezer Zussman Redelsheim)—son of Rabbi Yitzhak, a sage of Holland, of the same generation as Rabbi Yaakov Emden (the Yavetz), and who wrote the Mikrah Mefurash (Amsterdam 1749).

Ex libris of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon-Fishman of Jerusalem.

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