Lot: Tvu’ot H’aretz by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz, with Tvu’at HaShemesh, Divrei Yosef. First Edition. Beck Printers. ...

Lot: Tvu’ot H’aretz by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz, with Tvu’at HaShemesh, Divrei Yosef. First Edition. Beck Printers. Stamp of the Author of ‘Me’orer Yeshenim’.

Tvu’ot Ha’aretz by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz, Lemberg, 1865.

This is a comprehensive geographical book, by one of Eretz Israel’s greatest researchers during the ‘New Ages’ who emigrated to Eretz Israel from Europe in 1833. He toured the length and breadth of the land, engaging in detailed investigation of the land’s nature and geography as relevant to Biblical and Chazal references.

Rabbi Joseph Schwartz was born in Central Europe in 1804, and passed away in 1865. He served as a Shadar (Rabbinical Emissary) and was a Torah scholar, geographer, artist and foremost researcher of the Holy Land of that period.

Rabbi Schwartz taught in Mr Lemel’s school in Eretz Israel, although he resigned from his position due to external pressure.

Lemberg, 1865.

Otzar Hasefer Computerized Database, No. 67583.

Likely not found in the National Library.

Tevuot HaShemesh, Divrei Yosef – Compilation from Rabbi Joseph Schwartz’s Compositions. First Edition. Jerusalem, 1843, and Jerusalem, 1862. Yisrael Beck Printers.

‘The Book Divrei Yosef that I, the young Joseph Schwartz, of the Ashkenazi Children, authored.’

The printer, Yisrael Beck, was famed as a printer as well as one of the founders of the local Jewish agricultural plant of Har Meron, in 1834, well before the First Aliya.

The book bears a number of times, the stamp of Rabbi Mordechai Friedman, author of ‘Me’orer Yeshenim’ (Warsaw 1926) and ‘Potea’ach Devarim’ Booklet.

Jerusalem, 1843, Yisrael Beck.

8 leaves 6 pages. Complete. Excellent condition.

Otzar Hasefer Computerized Database, No. 46518.