Monday, February 3, 2014

What do you do when publishing partners part in middle of a printing? Yalkut Shimoni, Polonnoye, 1805

In 1805, in Polonnoye, a handsome edition of Yalkut Shimoni was published, by the publishers Yosef HaCohen and Shmuel Madpis. In the middle of the printing, after some copies already have been printed, the partnership dissolved and the decision was made to erase the name of the printed Shmuel Madpis from the emblem which appeared on the title page of every copy.

Here is a copy with the original emblem



And here are 2 copies with the words Shmuel Madpis crudely crossed out. 









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  1. A century old pogrom 1920 [ https://books.google.com/books?id=WxYbDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT114 ]
    'All the evidence indicates that these attacks were of a cowardly and traitorous nature. Most of them were against the elderly, women, and children. Most were attacked from the back.'

    It was led by M. Aref, incited by [ex mufti of Arab Palestine] arch racist al-Husseini.
    21 years later ex Mufti met with Hitler.
    His henchmen include: the fraud Issa Nakhleh holocaust denier (Nov.14.1972 at UN; 1978 at peace summit Camp David, in 1981 lecturer at IHR on behalf of Muslim Congress, linked to, worked with major neo nazis publications and groups) and the genocidal Ahmad Shukairy (the inventor of apartheid slur in Oct.17.1961) who questioned loyalty of Catholic Uruguayan rep. Fabregat stating he's "Jewish;" got booted (end of 1962) from UN after saluting Nazi gang.

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