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Avraham Kahana diaries 9

Title	Avraham Kahana diaries 9
Author	Kahana, Avraham ben Mordechai
Publication Date:	1932
Type	Document
Language	ara,eng,fra,heb
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Library:	University of Minnesota Libraries
Record ID	cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_462185635
Library Location	Request
Date	1932
Notes	In the file: a year's diary from 1932 [hard cover, Collins' Royal publishing in English and Hebrew] and inside it are notes in the handwriting of Avraham Kahana, in Hebrew, about his literary and professional work as well as personal notes. Among the headlines: [Writing in the diary from left to right:] "Mistakes of translations", "Today I had a Klausner day", "I met in Bialik and we walked for about an hour...we talked about dreams...[Bialik:] I once saw in my dream...seven stanzas from a poem by Y.L.G that will no longer be published", "I spent days in Jerusalem. I ran away from my work on the interpretation of S. and Leviticus and the introduction to the Bible...", "The list of books I purchased in 1932". Other topics: his memories as an eight-year-old boy, about the dispute he had with the history teacher at the seminary [by Lewinsky] about her students' lectures about Jesus, about Avronin who was forced to become a teacher of grades 1-2, about the funeral of S. Ben Zion and the obituaries of Rabbi Uziel, Musinzon and Dizengoff, about the opening of the library built by Libontin in Rishon Lezion, about the marriage of his son Jacob and the couple's trip The young man to Syria [14.6.32], about the trip to Tel Netzva discovered by Prof. Buddy from California and ancient Nablus, about the intrigues between Benjamin Menashe and Levin and Epstein, regarding Levin's desire to bring out the Jerusalemite with an exchange of formulas, about his meeting with Bialik and [Simcha] Asaf in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood in Jerusalem, about the meeting of teachers for the lottery of Keren Kiymet lots, about his meeting with Rapaport - Pardesan from Kfar Saba, whose father was a rabbi from the town of Dzhmel - was the son-in-law of R. Yosef Stern of Sha'vil ("Vafsi ha-Khozari" of 133). Also about his meetings with the chairman of the community in Aleppo - Rahmo Nichim, Fichman, Klausner and Lehover, Segal, Hanoch Yalon, Miller Hepardsan from Rehovot, Nachum Salushtz. Other personalities mentioned: Avigdor Ha'Meiri, Hacham Ezra Hamvi, Barash, Ben-Zvi, Harkabi, Rabnitsky, Mo's Ferris, Kook, Michal Rabinowitz, Dr. Luria, YH Kosovsky, Lichtenbaum, Noah Pines. Also 2 business cards of Rahmo Nice. One of them in Arabic is pasted to a diary page, where their meeting is told (February 12, 1932) and the other from Nice, Aleppo (Syria) [Meir Rahim, Aleppo, Syria].

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Avraham Kahana diaries 9

Author Kahana, Avraham ben Mordechai

Publication Date 1932

Type Document

Language ara,eng,fra,heb

Digital No

Manuscript No

Library University of Minnesota Libraries

Record ID cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_462185635

Library Location Request

Date 1932

Notes In the file: a year's diary from 1932 [hard cover, Collins' Royal publishing in English and Hebrew] and inside it are notes in the handwriting of Avraham Kahana, in Hebrew, about his literary and professional work as well as personal notes. Among the headlines: [Writing in the diary from left to right:] "Mistakes of translations", "Today I had a Klausner day", "I met in Bialik and we walked for about an hour...we talked about dreams...[Bialik:] I once saw in my dream...seven stanzas from a poem by Y.L.G that will no longer be published", "I spent days in Jerusalem. I ran away from my work on the interpretation of S. and Leviticus and the introduction to the Bible...", "The list of books I purchased in 1932". Other topics: his memories as an eight-year-old boy, about the dispute he had with the history teacher at the seminary [by Lewinsky] about her students' lectures about Jesus, about Avronin who was forced to become a teacher of grades 1-2, about the funeral of S. Ben Zion and the obituaries of Rabbi Uziel, Musinzon and Dizengoff, about the opening of the library built by Libontin in Rishon Lezion, about the marriage of his son Jacob and the couple's trip The young man to Syria [14.6.32], about the trip to Tel Netzva discovered by Prof. Buddy from California and ancient Nablus, about the intrigues between Benjamin Menashe and Levin and Epstein, regarding Levin's desire to bring out the Jerusalemite with an exchange of formulas, about his meeting with Bialik and [Simcha] Asaf in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood in Jerusalem, about the meeting of teachers for the lottery of Keren Kiymet lots, about his meeting with Rapaport - Pardesan from Kfar Saba, whose father was a rabbi from the town of Dzhmel - was the son-in-law of R. Yosef Stern of Sha'vil ("Vafsi ha-Khozari" of 133). Also about his meetings with the chairman of the community in Aleppo - Rahmo Nichim, Fichman, Klausner and Lehover, Segal, Hanoch Yalon, Miller Hepardsan from Rehovot, Nachum Salushtz. Other personalities mentioned: Avigdor Ha'Meiri, Hacham Ezra Hamvi, Barash, Ben-Zvi, Harkabi, Rabnitsky, Mo's Ferris, Kook, Michal Rabinowitz, Dr. Luria, YH Kosovsky, Lichtenbaum, Noah Pines. Also 2 business cards of Rahmo Nice. One of them in Arabic is pasted to a diary page, where their meeting is told (February 12, 1932) and the other from Nice, Aleppo (Syria) [Meir Rahim, Aleppo, Syria].