A. Firkowitsch und seine Entdeckungen. Ein Grabstein den hebräischen Grabschriften der Krim. Von Dr. Hermann L. Strack

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4to. pp. 44. 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. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.