Al Tile Bet Frank Rishme Ofebakh

by Zalman Shazar, Zalman Rubashov

$750 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Leipzig: Druglin, 1923 . First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 23pp. 1 , plus 7 b/w prints. Original quarter vellum over green cloth. Youthful essay by the future third president of the State of Israel Zalman Shazar Rubashov on the infamous eighteenth century messianic claimant Jacob Frank. Frank led a large number of Jews in the Podolia region of Ukraine to convert to Catholicism in 1759. Soon afterwards he was imprisoned in

• Binding: Leather

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