2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Booklet, “To the Chronicles of the Jews in Russia, Poland and Lithuania” (translated by Google Translate), by Ben Zion Katz, 1899, in Hebrew language, Berlin, published by "Ahiasaf" Publishing House. Cover worn, stained, missing corner to rear cover; spine damaged, binding started getting loose; most of pages with some foxong. Still an extraordinary volume by the historian Ben Zion Katz, which reviews the history of the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Aa special focus on the governments' relationship to the Jews and the history of the expulsions and persecutions. Ben Zion Katz (1875-1958) was a journalist, writer and historian, winner of the Sokolov Prize, a son of Lithuanian Jewry, from the city of Daug. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were rabbis. n 1929, Katz immigrated to Israel and began writing for Haaretz. He later left the newspaper and was one of the founders of HaBoker.
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