AVROM ENGELSHER
As may be seen on the frontispiece of
his works, he was a poor book-seller. He
gives the address of his shop: Genshe 23, herring shop, front entrance with a
large notice board: “I sell both old and new books and for a good price…. And, I also exchange books.” In the years 1837-1938, Engelsher published
twelve booklets in Yisroel-Khayim’s print shop in Bilgoray, each one of them with
a sheet of paper bearing the title Der
yudisher oytser, a zamlung fun glaykhvertlekh fun ale gedoyle yisroel
(Jewish treasury, a collection of aphorisms from all the prominent figures of
Israel). On the title page of each
booklet, there was a motto and occasionally two or three mottos—a phrase from
the Talmud. A new photographed edition was
brought out in New York by Yitskhok-Ayzik Shenberger of Brooklyn in the early
1960s, and a new edition also appeared in Israel (Bene-Brak: Yahadut,
1965/1966), 384 pp.
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 417.]
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