Auction 9 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

The Mysterious Family / Yiftach - Plays in Ladino – Vienna

Opening: $150
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
1. La Famia Mysteriosa – Tiatro in 4 Actos in Poisia, Yakim Bachar. [The Mysterious Family, play in four acts in poetry]. [Vienna, 1889].
Ladino in Rashi script. The cover with the printer's name and place of print is missing.
56 pages, 19 cm. Good condition. Unoriginal cover.
2. Yiftach, Tragedy in Four Acts, from the Bible], by Shabtai Yosef Gagin. Beina (Vienna), 1921. Ladino play in Rashi script. In the introduction, the author writes about his literary work and other plays, and thanks those who contributed to the play's publication, especially Egyptian residents. Author's portrait appears before title-page, with handwritten dedication.
[1], 95, [1] page, 21.5 cm. Much foxing on jacket. Partially detached jacket.
Opening price: $150
Various Communities, Ladino
Various Communities, Ladino