First Jewish play ever published!
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First Jewish play ever published!

Asirei Hatikvah. Amsterdam, 1673

Pardes Shoshanim – Asirei Tikvah.

This 3-scene play by Rabbi  Yosef Pinso conveys Jewish ethics and philosophy through  poetic dialogue. Asirei Hatikvah was the first Hebrew play published (A. Yaari. Hamachazeh HaIvri, Jerusalem 1957 p. 104).

The characters in this play  include a king and a fool; the Satan; Pleasure; Truth; and its purpose is to  distance a man from his heart’s negative desires.

The beginning of the book  features numerous poems both in Hebrew and Spanish by Amsterdam Rabbanim and  poets, among them Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav; Rabbi Avraham Hakohein Pimintel; Rabbi  Shlomo de Olviera, and others.

Book complete, contains all pages  in Portuguese, Spanish and Latin.

Amsterdam, 1673. First edition. [2], 54 leaves. Page size: 14.5 cm. 6 first leaves are slightly  shorter than other leaves. Title page margin lightly restored.
Good condition;  new half-leather binding.
Rare!

Provenance: William Gross Collection, Tel aviv

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