The second part of the material known as the “Will of the Baal Shem Tov” has just appeared in a Yiddish translation by S. H. Setzer, Jewish scholar who is publishing a series of studies under the general title of ” ‘Dos Wort’ Library.”
The beginning of the “Will of the Ba-al Shem Tov,” published by Mr. Setzer a short time ago, was Volume One of the Library. Mr. Setzer’s treatment of the work is said to be the only scholarly one in any language.
S. H. Setzer was at one time editor of several Yiddish and Hebrew publications and is the author of some ten works in the field of Jewish thought, including “Ferdinand Lasalle” “Personalities,” “The Quality of Mercy” and “The Wonder Tales of Reb Nachman Breslauer.”
Mr. Setzer’s next study will be based on his reminiscences of M. Z. Feierberg, Hebrew poet and author of the novel “Le-an?” (Whither?), a study of the struggle between the older and the younger generation. The book was an outstanding contribution to Hebrew fiction. Feierberg died about 1899, at the age of twenty-five.
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