Title: A. Firkowitsch und seine Entdeckungen. Ein Grabstein den hebräischen Grabschriften der Krim. Von Dr. Hermann L. Strack
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. 44.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">One of several pamphlets exposing as forgeries the Hebrew-inscribed tombstones supposedly discovered in the Crimea by Abraham ben Samuel Firkowitsch. See Bib# 4103090/Fr# 1474 for the initial 1845 publication of some of the spurious archeological ‘discoveries’ of Firkowitsch. See also M. Breslauer, "The tenth muse", being a catalogue of a collection illustrative of forgery and alleged forgery in history, science and literature, in manuscript and print, including major and minor rarities of English and Continental literature. [London, 1946], no. 215.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103089" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>