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Mitzpah, monthly journal dedicated to Jews and Judaism, ed. A.H. Zederbaum, illustr., 1986, St. Petersburg, in Hebrew Mitzpah – Journal Edited by Alexander Halevi Zederbaum – St. Petersburg, 1886 The present volume contains issues of ”Mitzpah”, (September-December 1885), rearranged. Illustrated by 16 picture-plates: portraits of Moses Montefiore, Dr. Eliezer Halevi and others; views of Palestine (Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed); Moses Montefiore's estate; and more. There is only one lithographed cover of first issue. New leather stamped binding and marmoreal endpapers, gold lettering to spine; size: 25 x 17 cm. Condition: wear and repair to soft cover; yellow paper; fragile paper; some stains to lower edge; some tears to edges. Weight: 790 gr. Mitzpah, monthly journal dedicated to Jews and Judaism in the past and present, with illustrations and pictures. Four issues were published in the four last months of 1885. Published by Alexander Halevi Zederbaum. St. Petersburg: Zvi Hirsch Pines Press, 1886. The volume contains articles, literary works and poems dealing with Judaism and the Jewish people in the Diaspora and in Palestine, by some of the well-known Jewish intellectuals of the time, including: Alexander Halevi Zederbaum, Yechiel Michel Pines, Zvi Hacohen Sharshevsky, Yehalel (Yehuda Leib Levin), Avraham Eliyahu Harkavy, Shneur Sacks, Naftali Herz Wessely, and others. Alexander Halevi Zederbaum (1816-1893), Jewish writer and journalist, a prominent figure in the Jewish Haskalah circles in Odessa. Founder and editor of the first Hebrew journal in Russia – ”HaMelitz”, the journals ”Kol Mevaser”, the Yiddish ”Yiddishes Folksblat” in Yiddish, and the Russian-language Bulletin for Russian Jews