Joseph Chotzner
Hebrew Satire.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1911. First edition. 181 pages.
Antique volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 7.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering and decorative designs to spine, and title stamped in gold on front cover with ruling at margins. Book exhibits light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Unmarked pages are clean.
German-born English scholar and writer Joseph Chotzner (1844-1914) "devoted his scholarly interests chiefly to humor and satire in Jewish literature (from the Bible to modern Hebrew writers), and he wrote on this subject a number of articles which appeared in the Jewish Quarterly Review and later in book form ("Hebrew Humour and Other Essays", 1905, and "Hebrew Satire," 1911). He published a small volume of humoristic essays and poems ("Leil Shimmurim," 1864) and wrote his youthful memoirs ("Zikhronot," 1885)."