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Shevet L'Gev Kesilim, by K.A. Shapira. Critical Essays on Literature and Poetry, 1st and only ed., 1885, St. Petersburg, in Hebrew - Shevet L'Gev Kesilim, by K.A. Shapira. Critical Essays on Literature and Poetry, 1st and only ed., 1885, St. Petersburg, in Hebrew Lego Kasili tribe, by K. A. Shapira Abba (Asher ben Eliyahu, Konstantin Alexandrovich Shapira. An article on the poetry of Y.L. Gordon, against the writer Mordechai Ben Hillel HaCohen. Zvi Hirsch Pins print, St. Petersburg, 1885., 60 pp. Hard cover - leather modern binding with gold lettering to spine, marmoreal endpapers, size: 17 x 13 cm. Condition: ex-library stamps; light brown paper; some stains and repair strip to title page and last page, small missing part near edge to first page. Weight: 180 gr. Constantin Aleksandrovich Shapiro (Russian: Константин Александрович Шапиро, Hebrew: 1839 -1900), born Asher ben Eliyahu Shapiro (Hebrew: אָשֵׁר בֶּן אֵלִיָּהוּ שַׁפִּירָא) and known by the pen name Abba Shapiro (Hebrew: אַבָּ״א שַׁפִּירָא), was a Hebrew lyric poet and photographer. Though he converted to Russian Orthodoxy at an early age, Shapiro nonetheless retained lifelong ties to Judaism, Zionism, and his mitnagedic roots, themes of which featured prominently in his poetry.[1] He was described by Yeshurun Keshet as ”a poet of the national legend, the first author of the ballad in Hebrew literature.”