DANIYEL VE-EZRA: IM TARGUM IVRI LE-FARSHIYOT HA-ARAMIYOT : NOSFU GAM TARGUM ANGLIT VI-YEHUDIT (IDISH) IM PERUSHIM U-VE'URIM HA-NEKUVIM BI-SHEMOT RAHAMIM BA-DIN, VE-EZRAT YIS´RA'EL, DANIEL AND EZRA: THE CANONIZED ARAMAIC TEXT TRANSLATED INTO HEBREW, YIDDISH AND ENGLISH, AND SUPPLEMENTED WITH FOOTNOTES AND MARGINAL COMMENTS

Nuyork [New York] : Druk fun A. H. Rozenberg, 1913. paperback. 1st tri-lingual edition (First edition of 1905 lacks English and Yiddish). Original gilt-tooled purple publisher's cloth, 8vo, 176, [2], xxx pages; 22 cm. In Hebrew and Yiddish with English section, including subscriber's list listing over 700 names, mostly Jews from small towns and big cities across America. Of special note among the approbations included are those of W. Loeb, on behalf of Pres.Theodore Roosevelt (27 Oct. 1904) and Charles D. Dorton, on behalf of Pres. William Taft (27 June 1910). The Aramaic text of Ezra and Nehemiah is reprinted here with the same type, layout and format as the first edition of 1905. In this second edition Heller added English and Yiddish translations on facing pages."Heller was born in 1862 in Bialystok. He was a student of Rabbi Samuel Mohilewer, Rabbi Meir Loeb b. Yehiel Mikhel [Malbim], [Michael Levi?] Rodkinson and Meir Ish-Shalom and he was ordained by the former two and by Rabbi Alexander Lapidot of Raseiniai. He also studied in the Koenigsberg gymnasium and the University of Vienna. He immigrated to America ca. 1900 and was a rabbi and teacher in a number of communities, including New York, Winnipeg, Calumet (MI)...Philadelphia, Waco (TX) and Charleston (WV)....Heller contributed to the Hebrew press and was known as a Zionist preacher. In America he studied at Baylor University (Texas) and the University of Chicago. He died in 1932 in New York. His younger brother was the famed scholar Rabbi Chaim Heller" (Goldman)The book ncludes: errata (pages 175-6); acknowledgments (page 11] preface (pages V1-XI); and the long list of over 700 subscribers (pages XII-XXX). Other approbations include those of: Rev. Dr. H[enry] . Pereira Mendes of New York (30 May 1905); Rabbi Dr. Hillel Hacohen Klein of New York (10 May 1905); Rabbi Dov Aryeh Hacohen [Bernard Louis] Levinthal of Philadelphia (20 Mar. 1905); Rabbi Mordekhai Zev Raisin (Adar 1905); Tashrak [Israel Joseph Zevin] (7 June 1905); David Moses Hermalin (15 June 1905); Alexander Moses Lapidot of Raseiniai; Dr. Abraham Elijah Harkavy of St. Petersburg (Tabernacles 1883); Dr. Israel Mikhel Rabinovich OBM of Paris; Meir Ish-Shalom of Vienna (23 Nov. 1883); Jacob Reifmann (5 Nov. 1883); Dr. Gotthard Deutsch in American Israelite (25 Jan. 1906); and the Camden Post Telegram (23 May 1904). SUBJECT(S): Bible. Ezra -- Commentaries. Daniel. OCLC: 41121668. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Gilt lettering rubbing off boards, otherwise very Good Condition, a beautiful Copy. (YID-42-7-LE-'x).