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Title

Meʼir Schön poetry book
מאיר שאֶן ספר-שירים

Authors

• Schön, Meʼir
  שאֶן, מאיר

Other related names

• Hekhal Shelomoh. Library, former owner
  היכל שלמה.

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 554
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977997401803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1313965321
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew; end inscriptions in Hungarian (f. 238v-239r)

Origin

Date

1900?-1914

Summary

This is a manuscript book of poetry by Meʼir Schön, likely a rendering of his archive of poems into a manuscript for publication. Introduction (f. 2r-13v) details the author's exhaustive toil of lifelong Hebrew study (he admired the contributions to the study of Hebrew of Naphtali Hirz Wessely, Joseph Kohen-Zedek, Avrom Ber Gotlober, Solomon Rubin, Isaac Baer Levinsohn, Max Emanuel Stern, among others (f. 7r; additionally quoting Mordecai b. Abraham Banet on f. 8r)). Poems include a memorial for his parents and teacher (f. 15r-16v), poems for holidays, meditations on old age and death, a long poem of homebuilding as a parable for life's toil (f. 59r-99r); a section called Shirat dodim contains poems written for friends and relatives (such as a poem for a friend on his fiftieth anniversary in the rabbinate; f. 115v); the names of the subjects are replaced by an ellipsis. An afterword indicates that the manuscript was completed on the eve of Rosh ha-Shanah 5674 (September 20, 1914). Written mostly in stanzas on commercial lined paper (binder holes in gutter), rebound in buckram; written in an Ashkenazic cursive script, with highlights in a square script; select words and accents vocalized.

Extent

1 item (239 leaves) : 220 x 143 mm +

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Hekhal Shelomoh, Jerusalem, in the Sir Isaac Wolfson Central Rabbinic Library (Hebrew stamp on free-end); former call number "Hekhal Shlomo Jerusalem Israel Ms. Qu. 30".
   
• Sold at Kedem Auctions, Sale 12 (October 21, 2010) lot 463.
   
• Sold at Suissia Auction House, Auction 36 (June 29, 2021) lot 209.
   

Subjects topical

• Jews
• History
• Haskalah
• Fasts and feasts--Judaism
• Hebrew poetry, Modern
• Slovakia--Košice
• Slovakia
• Ungar, Moses,--Rabbi (Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland),--1814-1890?,--poetry
• Hebrew poetry, Modern--19th century
• Hebrew poetry, Modern--20th century
• Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Meditations--Poetry
• Haskalah--Slovakia--20th century
• Jews--Slovakia--Košice--20th century--History--Sources

Genres

• Sources
• Meditations
• Poetry
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Poetry
• manuscripts for publication
• black-and-white photographs
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--20th century
• Meditations

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Introduction
• fol. 15r — A memorial for author's parents and teacher
• fol. 59r — Poems for holidays, meditations on old age and death, and a long poem of homebuilding as a parable for life's toil
• fol. 115v — Shirat dodim; poems written for friends and relatives

Decorations

• i verso — Photograph