Mitzpah, monthly journal dedicated to Jews and Judaism in the past and present, with illustrations and pictures. Four issues published in the four last months of 1885. Published by Alexander Halevi Zederbaum. St. Petersburg: Zvi Hirsch Pines Press, 1886.
The present volume contains all four first issues of "Mitzpah", (September-December 1885), rearranged.
The volume contains articles, literary works and poems dealing with Judaism and the Jewish people in the Diaspora and in Palestine, by some of the well-known Jewish intellectuals of the time, including: Alexander Halevi Zederbaum, Yechiel Michel Pines, Zvi Hacohen Sharshevsky, Yehalel (Yehuda Leib Levin), Avraham Eliyahu Harkavy, Shneur Sacks, Naftali Herz Wessely, and others. Accompanied by 16 picture-plates: portraits of Moses Montefiore, Dr. Eliezer Halevi and others; views of Palestine (Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed); Moses Montefiore's estate; and more.
Alexander Halevi Zederbaum (1816-1893), Jewish writer and journalist, a prominent figure in the Jewish Haskalah circles in Odessa. Founder and editor of the first Hebrew journal in Russia – "HaMelitz", the journals "Kol Mevaser", the Yiddish "Yiddishes Folksblat" in Yiddish, and the Russian-language Bulletin for Russian Jews (Вестни русский евреев).
Volume: 24 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases, closed tears and open tears to edges of leaves. Tears to edges of front cover and title page, reinforced with tape. New leather binding, with the original cover.