HaZfira, edited by Haim Zelig Slonimsky. Warsaw, [1862]. First year, issues 1-25.
"periodical bringing news about all topics of interest concerning state matters, science, news from the world and nature". "HaZfira" – the first Hebrew newspaper in Poland during the Russian regime, and one of the most important Hebrew newspapers printed in Eastern Europe. Established in Warsaw in 1862, but the period's events – the Polish rebellion of 1863 and appointing the editor Slonimsky as supervisor of the Rabbis Beit Midrash in Zitomir, caused the discontinuation of the paper's appearance after only six months and 25 issues. Slonimsky succeeded to renew the appearance of "HaZfira" in 1874 in Berlin, and a year later the editorial was returned to Warsaw where it stayed during all the years of its existence. In 1886 "HaZfira" adopted the daily paper format, in which it appeared continuously for twenty years, from 1906 onwards it was published intermittently (in various formats) until its final closure in 1931. 200 pages, 29 cm. Good condition. Stains, some dark. Rare. From the private collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.