Machanayim with Author's Dedication, First Edition. Warsaw, 1899.

Machanayim - story by Michah Yosef Berdichevski, published by Toshia. Warsaw, 1900. First edition. Author's dedication on the title page.
Michah Yosef Berdichevski [1865-1921] Jewish author and philosopher who created new writing patterns in alliance literature; reformer in all matters of religion and Jewish national history. Machanayim is one of his more famous works. He wrote his works in Hebrew, Yiddish and German. Bialik described Berdichevski's works as "The deep inner core of the generation's thoughts and feelings, in his work he freed all his soul's quivering and his spirit's agitation." He studied the philosophical doctrines of the major German philosophers such as Nietzsche and Hegel at the University of Breslau, in Berlin and in Berne, and he was deeply affected by them. He would regularly publish articles in the Hebrew press.
47 pp. 17 cm. Including ex-libris: "From the Library of Rabbi Dr. Aharon Segal Tentzer of Heffingen."
Cardboard binding. Very fine condition.