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Second Yemenite Letter - Jacob Saphir - Mainz 1873 - The Second Yemenite Letter (Igeret Teyman Ha'Shenit), on the Resurrected Messiah in Yemen. Published by Ari' Leib Halevi Levinsohn, Vilna. Printed by Rabbi Yechiel Bri”l, Mainz, 1873. The polemic on the two false messiahs from Yemen in the nineteenth century: Juda bar Shalom (known as Meir Shukar el Kahil) and his successor Shukar Kahil the Second. Written by Rabbi Jakov Halevi Saphir (1822-1885), who was a scholar, manuscript researcher, traveler and ethnographer, who wrote a book about his travels to distant Jewish communities, including Yemen. Hebrew, 18X12 cm. Good condition, rebound.