Public Auction #2

Don Isaac Abravanel, two rare books
1. A historical play in five acts by Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Leib Landau, New-York 1919.
The play is about the life of Don Isaac Abravanel after the expulsion from Spain, with his arrival in Naples.
Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Leib (1866-1942) was the rabbi of Johannesburg and a rabbi in Manchester. He wrote several plays, among them 'Bar Kokhba', 'The End of Jerusalem' and more. He studied at the University of Vienna and the seminar for rabbis. He served as honorary president of the Zionist Federation in South Africa and as a professor in the University of Johannesburg.
112 pp.
Condition: Very good.
2. The life and work of Don Isaac Abravanel (on the 500 anniversary of his birth) by Selig Schachnowitz, Frankfurt 1937.
A booklet in German about the life and work of Don Isaac Abravanel. The author, Rabbi Yehoshua Selig Schachnowitz (1875-1952), an author and editor of the newspaper 'Der Izraelite' which was founded by Rabbi Meir Lehman in order to present articles and stories to adults and youth as an alternative to the literature of the Enlightenment and as a defensive war against the assimilation in Germany. Among its unique writers was Rabbi Schachnowitz whose wonderful books, the most famous of them his book about the Kahzars, lightened the hearts. He immigrated to Switzerland due to the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany and there he died.
15 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator and financer. He served as the Finance Minister in the court of King Alfonso until he was forced to escape due to a blood libel. He moved to Toledo and from there to Castile. He served as the Finance Minister of Castile and Aragon in the court of Fernando and Isabel. He unsuccessfully fought the expulsion decree from Spain and moved with the other Jews to Naples. He eventually died in Venice.