Master of Hope: Selected Writings of Naphtali Herz Imber by Naphtali Herz Imber - 1985-06-01

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paper Wrappers. 8vo; New York: Songs of Religion Co., 1946. 1st edition. 1 score ([3] pages); 30 cm. Became the Israeli national anthem. "Including New Refrain as Sung in Israel." Traditional melody; words in English and phonetic romanized Hebrew. Original music [i.e. words] by N.H. Imber; English lyrics by Jacob Freedman. Subjects: National songs -- Israel. Other titles: Jewish national anthem. An important document, here in the scarce first edition. Fine Condition. (AMR-50-17A).

LOS ANGELES, CA: Max Cohn, 1910. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Red cloth, ink pen written author last name on spine, edgewear, usual library markings, card holder, 201 pgs. , pages browned, signatures intack, pages good,199-201 pages chipped at top, gilt lettering on cover, rare stories of Jewish mysticism; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 201 pages.

Los Angeles; Max Cohn, 1910. Later Wraps. 8vo. VI, 201 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Scarce. Contents include: History of mysticism: the Mahatmas of the Essenes; The wonders of the original Mahatmas; Tales of Rabba Bar Barchana; Ghost stories of an unknown; Titus; The Miserere; Rabbi Ishmael; Spanish spoilation, or the Grand Inquisition; French frivolity; Jewish Trials in Germany; Education and Talmud. Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909) , "poet and author of 'Ha-Tikvah' ('The Hope') , the Zionist and later the Israel national anthem. He was born in Galicia where he received an intensive traditional but no secular education. Imber went to Palestine with Laurence Oliphant, a Christian Zionist whom he met in Constantinople in 1882 and whom he served as secretary and adviser on Jewish affairs in Palestine (1882-88) . In 1888, he returned to Europe but soon his restless nature took him back to the East and he wandered as far as Bombay. In India, as in Palestine, he was wooed by missionaries and was later… Read More