![LEWINSKY [LEVINSKI], Elhanan Leib (1857-1910). Masa le-erets yisrael bi-shenat 800 [A Journey to Palestine in the Year 2040]. Odessa: Bi-Defus Dukhna, 1892.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0343_000(lewinsky_levinski_elhanan_leib_masa_le-erets_yisrael_bi-shenat_800_a_j103604).jpg?w=1)
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LEWINSKY [LEVINSKI], Elhanan Leib (1857-1910). Masa le-erets yisrael bi-shenat 800 [A Journey to Palestine in the Year 2040]. Odessa: Bi-Defus Dukhna, 1892.
Presentation copy, second edition, of a rare Utopian vision of Jewish life in Palestine, published 10 years before Herzl’s Altneuland (1902). Set in the year 2040, it is the tale of a flourishing society distinguished by its cultural harmony, thriving industry, technological advances and love of peace. RBH/ABPC list no copies of any edition at auction.
Octavo (171 x 127mm). Text in Hebrew (occasional chips and light stains, a few leaves loose at beginning). 20th-century cloth-backed boards preserving upper printed wrapper (lightly worn, wrapper restored with chips at edges). Provenance: Yechezkel Levit (writer, 1878-1945; presentation inscription in Hebrew on title, ‘To my friend the writer Yechezkel Levit as a gift from the author’) — Jewish Theological Seminary of America (labels and blindstamps).
Presentation copy, second edition, of a rare Utopian vision of Jewish life in Palestine, published 10 years before Herzl’s Altneuland (1902). Set in the year 2040, it is the tale of a flourishing society distinguished by its cultural harmony, thriving industry, technological advances and love of peace. RBH/ABPC list no copies of any edition at auction.
Octavo (171 x 127mm). Text in Hebrew (occasional chips and light stains, a few leaves loose at beginning). 20th-century cloth-backed boards preserving upper printed wrapper (lightly worn, wrapper restored with chips at edges). Provenance: Yechezkel Levit (writer, 1878-1945; presentation inscription in Hebrew on title, ‘To my friend the writer Yechezkel Levit as a gift from the author’) — Jewish Theological Seminary of America (labels and blindstamps).
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