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(Jt) Hertz, Joseph H.
THE BATTLE FOR THE SABBATH AT GENEVA
Original Wraps. 8vo. 76 pages. 25 cm. First edition. With seven leaves of plates. "Read before the Jewish Historical Society of England on December 16, 1931, and ... Herewith reprinted, annotated and documented, from the forthcoming volume XIII of the society's Transactions. " This work by Joseph Herman Hertz, the chief Rabbi of England, is a history of the Gregorian calendar reform proposed by the League of Nations, and the struggle of Jewish participants to prevent any curtailment of the Sabbath by reorganizing the weeks: Occasionally, a general topic of special interest to the Jews was placed on the agenda of the League, as in the case of the question of the reform of the Gregorian calendar. After six years of preliminary studies, the matter was brought up for debate in October 1931. From almost 200 propositions submitted, considerable support was given to one suggesting that the year be divided into 13 equal months of 28 days and that the last day (or the last two days in a leap year) should be trimmed off and deemed an extra day, or 'blank day. ' By the terms of this proposal, the regular sequence of seven-day weeks would have been interrupted by the introduction of the 'blank day' and the Sabbath would have moved to a different weekday each year. As this would have seriously prejudiced Sabbath observance, the Jewish spokesmen led by the chief rabbis of France and Britain fought the reform project. In the face of the combined opposition of many governments, the Jews, the Seventh-Day Adventists, and other bodies, the conference concluded almost unanimously that the time was not ripe for modifying the Gregorian calendar. Since the League of Nations was an organization of states and not of nations, the Jews as such were naturally unable to participate in its activities. However, where the participation of nongovernmental, international, or national organizations was considered desirable on certain commissions or at conferences convened under the aegis of the League, Jewish organizations were also invited to nominate permanent representatives or send observers. Thus, for example, Jewish observers were invited to attend the conference on calendar reform and were authorized to voice their opinions. (JE 2008) Subjects: Sabbath. Calendar. League of Nations Calendar Reform. Light soiling to wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (SPEC-39-34)
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(Jt) Hertz, Simon; V. S. D. Aaronson.
TORATH S'FATH EBER : A HEBREW GRAMMAR. AN INSTRUCTIVE GUIDE TO THE HOLY LANGUAGE FOR JEWISH SCHOOLS AND HOMES. WRITTEN IN A MOST INTERESTING AND ATTRACTIVE STYLE, WITH AMPLE RULES AND EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING RASHI SCRIPT AND THE READING OF UNPUNCTUATED HEBREW. IN ENGLISH AND JEWISH-GERMAN.
8vo. Viii, 112, 112, 225-253 pages. In English and Yiddish on opposite pages. Includes list of patrons. Goldman 319. Deinard 880, Rappel (1993) 90, 271. Rappel (1995) H79. SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew language grammar. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Ex library. Covers worn, good condition. (AMR-32-5)
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(Jt) Herzl, Theodor) World Zionist Organization.
THEODOR HERZL : EIN GEDENKBUCH ZUM 25. TODESTAGE.
8vo. 77 pages. Illustrated. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Zionism Austria biography; Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904. Includes extracts from Theodor Herzl's works, diaries, speeches, etc. One of the most famous Zionist leader, Herzl was born in Budapest in 1860. While he did study law in Vienna, most of his early intellectual work concentrated on literature and journalism. He was launched into Zionism in 1896, motivated by the Dreyfus case, and fueled by the translation into English of his Judenstaat. The next year he planned the first Zionist Congress, and was elected it's president; at following Congresses, he was continually reelected. Heads of state throughout Europe conferred with Herzl in his position as leader of the Zionists. In particular, he worked with the British government for the establishment of territory for the Jews in the Middle East. He died in 1904. (Singer & Haas, JE) . Pages a little tanned, good condition. (GER-25-5)
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(Jt) Herzl, Theodor. Leon Kellner, Ed.
THEODOR HERZL'S ZIONISTISCHE SCHRIFTEN. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
Berlin-Charlottenburg: Jüdischer Verlag, 1905. Cloth; 8vo. 312, 312 pages. Marbled boards; decorative endpapers. Beautifully typeset, with ornate borders on chapter headings. First edition. In German. Two volumes in one. Not the more common 1920 edition. Herzl is the "father of political Zionism and founder of the World Zionist Organization. [He] transformed Zionism from a weak and insignificant movement into a world organization and a political entity that Great Britain was prepared to accept as the authorized representative of the Jewish people. This in turn led to the Balfour Declaration and eventually to the founding of the State of Israel. " (Alex Bein, EJ) SUBJECT(S) : Jewish question. Jews -- Restoration. Boards very scuffed and edgeworn; backstrip not present. Front hinge weak. Contemporary inscription on title page. Interior in very good condition. (GER-8-10)
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(JT) Hiat, Philip, Philip E. Miller and Michael Alan Signer
A VISUAL TESTIMONY--JUDAICA FROM THE VATICAN LIBRARY
Softcover, 4to, 104 pages, illustrated, some color, 31 cm. SUBJECT (S) : Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Vatican City -- Exhibitions. Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts -- Vatican City -- Exhibitions. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana -- Exhibitions. Hebreeuwse handschriften. Manuscrits hebreux -- Catalogues dexposition. Enluminure -- Catalogues dexposition. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana -- Catalogues dexposition. Includes bibliographical references. Very good condition. (Art-6-9A)
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(Jt) Higger, Michael
OTSAR HA-BARAYTOT - volume 1 only
Hardcover, 159 pages, 8vo. 22 cm. In Hebrew. Sefer Zayin. SUBJECT (S) : Baraitha. Includes bibliographies. Higger, a great scholar, taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Inscribed by author. JTS copy with bookplate. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-16-16D)
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(Jt) Higger, Michael
OTSAR HA-BARAYTOT - volume 1 only
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 1968. Introduction by Abraham Cronbach Royal octavo, blue cloth with gold lettering, endpapers illustrated with pages from an early printed book, 54 pp., illustrations by Button Wenk, Very Good . (BIB-16-16D)
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(Jt) Higger, Michael
OTSAR HA-BARAYTOT - volume 10 only
Hardcover, 515 pages, 8vo. 22 cm. In Hebrew. Sefer Zayin. SUBJECT (S) : Baraitha. Includes bibliographies. Higger, a great scholar, taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. JTS copy with bookplate. OCLC lists 33 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-16-16)
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(Jt) Higger, Michael
OTSAR HA-BARAYTOT - volume 5 only
Hardcover, 629 pages, 8vo. 22 cm. In Hebrew. Sefer Zayin. SUBJECT (S) : Baraitha. Includes bibliographies. Higger, a great scholar, taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. JTS copy with bookplate. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-16-16C)
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(Jt) Higger, Michael
OTSAR HA-BARAYTOT - volume 9 only
Hardcover, 470 pages, 8vo. 22 cm. In Hebrew. Sefer Zayin. SUBJECT (S) : Baraitha. Includes bibliographies. Higger, a great scholar, taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. JTS copy with bookplate. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-16-16B)
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(Jt) Hillels, Shlomo.
BE-HAMIR ARETS : ROMAN BI-SHENE SEFARIM. VOLUME 2.
(FT) 8vo. 263 pages. In Hebrew. Volume two (of two) only. SUBJECT(S) : Fiction. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. "Hillels [1873-1953] was raised in Bessarabia, and he served as principal of the Jewish public school of Marcolesti. In 1918 he headed the Office of the Federated Councils which was established in Romania to aid the refugees fleeing the Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In 1921 he moved to Kishinev where he was appointed supervisor of the Tarbut Hebrew schools in Bessarabia. In 1925 he settled in Palestine where he taught in the Mikveh Israel agricultural school and was the director of Beit Bialik (Bialik House) in Tel Aviv. During World War II he lived in the United States. His early pieces appeared in the 1890s in Ha-Zefirah and in Ha-Meliz. However, his best works were written after he went to Palestine... His writings are realistic, and tempered by a profound faith in man. " (EJ, 2007) Ex library with minimal markings. Very good condition. (HebLit-5-32)
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(Jt) Hirschberg, Avraham Shmuel
BE-ERETS HA-MIZRAH, IN ORIENTAL LANDS.
Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 556 pages. In Hebrew; Series: Sifriya le-toldot ha-yishuv ha-yehudi be-Erets-Yisra? El; Quntresim; 6; Variation: Sifriya le-toldot ha-yishuv ha-yehudi be-Erets-Yisrel. ; Quntresim; 6. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Danish Union, DET Kongelige Biblitek) . Light wear. Very good condition. (Sef-25-27)
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(Jt) Hirschberg, H. Z. ; E Bashan
MI-MIZRAH UMI-MA'ARAV: KOVETS MEHKARIM BE-TOLDOT HA-YEHUDIM BA-MIZRAH UVE-MAGREB = EAST AND MAGHREB [VOLUMES 1-2]
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXI, 331; XVIII, 235 pages. 23 cm. In Hebrew. Summaries in English. Volumes one and two: East and Maghreb, Researches in the History of the Jews in the Orient and North Africa. Kerekh 1. 'arukh bi-yede H. Z. Hirshberg; be-hishtatfut E. Bashan - kerekh 2. Ba-'arikhat Eliezer Bashan, Avraham Rubinstein, Shim'on Shvartsfuks. Volume one includes ten essays and eight plates (including three maps) : with essays on Sephardim and Ashkenazim in the Ottoman Empire, the economic basis of Yeshivot in the Ottoman Empire, structure of the Rabbinate in the Ottoman Empire, Emancipation of Tunisian Jewry, etc. Volume two contains eleven essays: Divorce proceedings in Cairo Genizah documents, the Sages of Salonika, Responsum of R. Haim Capusi, Elegies of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, Hebrew Printing in the Maghreb, Sephardi Rabbinical Emissaries to the Maghreb after World War 1, etc. Subjects: Jews - Turkey. Judaism - Turkey. Jews - Africa, North. Judaism - Africa, North. Ethnic relations. Institutional stamp on endpage, light water staining to upper margins, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (SEF-53-18)
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(Jt) Hirschowitz, Abraham E.
SHU-T BET AVRAHAM. 2 VOLUMES.
(FT) 8vo. 62, 96 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Responsa 1800-1948; Jewish sermons, hebrew United States. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. CONTENTS: Helek 1. Asher heshivu li gedole ha-dor bi-devar halakhah le-ma`aseh -- Helek 2. 27 derushim le-Shabatot u-mo`adim, le-nisuim, li-verit milah u-Bar mitsvah. Embossed covers. Pages tanned, tears on spine, bumped corners, hinges starting, good condition. (RAB-18-2)
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(Jt) Hirshenzon, Hayim
SEFER TORAT HA-HINUKH HA-YISREELI
(FT) Cloth, 202 pages, 8vo, 24 cm. In Hebrew. Subject: Jewish religious education of children. Jews -- Education -- History. Wear and tear on cover and binding. Pages 21-25 slight tear. Institutional bookplate, Slight stain on title page and first page, otherwise good condition. (k-rab-1-24)
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(Jt) Holbein, Hans.
BILDER ZUM ALTEN TESTAMENT. VOLUME I.
Berlin: Verlag für Jüdische Kunst und Kultur Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. Wrappers; 12mo. 27 pages. First Edition thus. In German. Decorative covers. Illustrated with woodcuts. Volume I of a 4-volume set. Series: Jüdische Bücherei; Bd. 9. Contents: 1. Genesis. SUBJECT (S) : Bible. O. T. -- Pictorial works. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Columbia, UPenn, UPenn Ctr. For Judaic Studies, Utexas, Univ. Library Amsterdam) . Leaves loose in wraps; edges and corners chipped; paper very dark and brittle. Fair condition. (GER-8-13)
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(jt) Holdheim) Heilpern, Pinhas Menahem.
TESHUVOT BE-ANSHE ON. HOLDHAIM VE-RE`AV BE-MIKHTAVIM SHELOSHAH `ESER.
Frankfurt am Main: No Date (1845) . Cloth, 8vo, 72 pages. 20 cm. In Hebrew. Orthdox booklet attacking Holdheim and the radical Reform. SUBJECT(S) : Reform Judaism -- Controversial literature. OCLC lists 8 institutions with copies (Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, GWU, Florida, Penn, Washington U, NYPL) . Library blind stamp on title page, some wear & staining, Good Condition. (GH-4-6)
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(Jt) Holdheim, Samuel.
MA'AMAR HA-ISHUT: 'AL TEKHUNAT HA-RABANIM VEHA-KARA'IM; KOLEL HAKIROT SHONOT BE-MAHLOKOT HA-TSEDUKIM VEHA-PERUSHIM, HA-KARA'IM VEHA-RABANIM, 'AL ZEMANAM VE-SIBOT TOLDOTAM.
(FT) 8vo. 173 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Marriage (Jewish law) ; Divorce (Jewish law) ; Karaites. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Holdheim (1806-1860) was a German Reform leader. He preached in German, established modern schools, and held services on Sundays. His general idea was to separate Jews' religious imperative from their civic duties owed to the countries they lived in. In Ma'amar ha-Ishut al Tekhunat ha-Rabbanim ve-ha-Kara'im (1861) , a historical work written in Hebrew and published posthumously. Holdheim attempts, inter alia, to refute Geiger's opinion on the nature of the controversy between the Pharisees and the Sadducees and defends the traditional thesis that the principle in dispute was whether interpretation of the Scripture should be based on the primary meaning (Sadducees) as opposed to midrashic exegesis (Pharisees) . (Levinger, EJ) Ex library. Pages tanned and water stained, minor wear on boards, good condition. (GER-27-23)
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(Jt) Holdheim, Samuel.
UEBER DIE BESCHNEIDUNG ZUNÄCHT IN RELIGIÖS-DOGMATISCHER BEZIEHUNG.
8vo. 88 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Circumcision. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Holdheim (1806-1860) was a German Reform leader. He preached in German, established modern schools, and held services on Sundays. His general idea was to separate Jews' religious imperative from their civic duties owed to the countries they lived in. (Levinger, EJ) Boards worn, pages foxed, good condition. (MX-21-4)
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(Jt) Holmes, John Haynes.
JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: A SERIES OF THREE ADDRESSES. VOLUME 1 OF 3: WHERE JUDAISM IS SUPERIOR TO CHRISTIANITY [ONLY].
New York: Community Church, 1928. Half Cloh. 8vo. 21 pages. Volume 1 of 3. Titles of other volumes are: Where Christianity is Superior to Judaism; Religion Superior to Both Judaism and Christianity. SUBJECT (S) : OCLC lists 4 libraries worldwide with all three volumes (Harvard, UC Berkeley, University of Scranton, London Library) . Dampstains throughout. Marbled covers. Binding shaken. Ex-library with usual markings. Water damage to endpapers. Otherwise in Good condition. (AMRN-13-16) .
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(Jt) Holscher, Gustav.
DER SADDUZÄISMUS: EINE KRITISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG ZUR SPÄTEREN JÜDISCHEN RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE.
8vo. 116 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Sadducees. Ex library. Boards worn, backstrip missing, pages wrinkled from moisture, good- condition. (GER-27-3)
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(Jt) Holzinger, H.
DAS BUCH JOSUA: ERKLÄRT.
8vo. Xxii, 103 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Bible. O. T. Joshua - commentaries; Bible. O. T. Joshua - criticism, interpretation, etc. SERIES: Kurzer Hand-Commentar zum Alten Testament ; ; Abt. 6. Ex library. Light water stain in top margin, cover edges dented, good condition. (RAB-21-20)
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(Jt) Hornik, M. P. , Castro, Americo
COLLECTED STUDIES IN HONOUR OF AMERICO CASTRO'S 80TH YEAR
Hardcover, 8vo, 482 pages. S. 479-482: Americo Castro. Selected bibliography. The Richard Kronstein foundation for the promotion of Jewish and cognate studies. Castro (18851972) , was a Spanish historian and literary critic. Castro was a professor at the University of Madrid and later at Princeton University. He interpreted the culture and history of Spain as a result of the coming together of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, which created a peculiarly Hispanic form of life, different both from the East and from the civilization of Western Europe. The expulsion of 1492 was in Castro's view the result of uncontainable pressures from below. He believes that the preoccupation with purity of lineage in Christian Spain from the 15th century on was a transfer of a Jewish concept, due to the infiltration of converts into Christian society. The use of secrecy and informers by the Inquisition was a continuation of methods used by Jewish tribunals. Ultimately, according to Castro, it was the Jews and their descendants the Conversos who were responsible for the discrimination by the Spaniards against the New Christians because of the latter's blood or race and for the cruel and unjust methods employed by the Inquisition and the maltreatment of those who were brought to trial before it. These were all derived from Jewish sources and traditions. Castro relied on "evidence" from the Bible, from the origin of the Spanish aristocracy, from medieval Jewish authors like Santob de Carrion (Shem Tov ben Ardutiel) , R. Moses Arragel, R. Asher ben Yehiel, R. Solomon ben Adret, and others. Castro's evidence is based entirely on a basic misunderstanding of the sources, of the Jews' understanding of the biblical text, and of the essence of Jewish law (Scholberg in EJ 2007) . OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (National Library of Sweden) . Heavily warped by waterdamage, but completely usable with no explicit damage (plates were not printed on glossy paper, but rather high-grade flat paper, so they did not stick) . Ex-library with usual markings. Staining to cover. Staining on edges of pages. Good condition. Important and scarce. (Sef-18-17)
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(Jt) Horonczyk, Sz. , 1889-1939.
Geklibene Shriftn
(FT) Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 118 pages. Includes illustrations 22 cm. In Yiddish. Mayse-bikhlekh -- Bay a raykhn korev -- In geroysh fun mashinen -- 1905 -- Zump. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish fiction. Some edgewear to covers, paper browning as generally found but no tears. Good+ Condition. (HOLO2-87-7)
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(Jt) Horovitz, Saul.
DIE PSYCHOLOGIE BEI DEN JÜDISCHEN RELIGIONSPHILOSOPHEN DES MITTELALTERS VON SAADIA BIS MAIMUNI. HEFT II: DIE PSYCHOLOGIE DER JÜDISCHEN NEUPLATONIKER. A. GABIROL.
Breslau: Th. Schatzky, 1900. Boards; 8vo. [77]-146 pages. In German. Volume II of a series. "Sonder-Abdruck aus dem Jahres-Bericht des jüdish-theologischen Seminars zu Breslau, 1900." Includes bibliographical references and errata. Horovitz was a Hungarian-born scholar of talmudic literature and medieval religious philosophy. With "a comprehensive knowledge of Jewish lore and of Latin, Greek, and Arabic, [he] made a significant contribution to Jewish and Islamic philosophical studies. " His work "is distinguished not by its quantity but by its maturity and solidity. " (Moshe David Herr, EJ) SUBJECT(S) : Judaism -- Psychology. Philosophy, Jewish. Front hinge cracked; flyleaf detached, but present. Sunned. Interior in very good condition. (GER-6-12)
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(Jt) Hosmer, James K.
THE STORY OF THE JEWS: ANCIENT, MEDIAEVAL, AND MODERN.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. Cloth; 12mo. Xviii, 381 pages. Originally copyright 1885. Decorative boards in red, green, and black. Tissued frontispiece engraving. Illustrated with engravings (some portraits) and two fold-out maps. Series: The Story of the Nations. Preface and index. Intended primarily for older youth. The non-Jewish author states in his preface that he has endeavored to give prominence to "the more picturesque and dramatic features of the record. The profundities are only touched upon....At the same time, [providing] details of exterminating warfare, of sharpest torture, of bitterest cursing....the writer feels that Israel, among the nations, should be regarded with reverence, even with awe, in times modern as well as ancient. " Singerman 3438. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- History. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide of this edition. Ex-library. Damp stained. Spine sunned, with some edgewear. Binding broken, with front flyleaf and some interior leaves detached but present. Maps have small tears. Text in good condition. (AMR-1-18)
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(Jt) Hunterberg, Max.
THE CRUCIFIED JEW: WHO CRUCIFIED JESUS?
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1927. Cloth. 8vo. 106 pages. An essay on the wrongful persecution of the Jews for the death of Christ. SUBJECT (S) : Jesus Christ-Jewish Interpretations; Jesus Christ-Crucifixion. Gilt lettering on cover. Spine faded. Personal copy of Israel Goldstein with his bookplate. Otherwise in Very Good condition. (AMRN-13-21) .
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(Jt) Hurvitz, S. I.
KOLONYE LUSYENVIL: TSU DER GESHIKHTE FUN DER ANTSHTEYUNG UN ANTVIKLUNG FUN DER KOLONYE, IN PROVINTS ENTRE RIOS BE-MESHEKH FUN 37 YOR TSEYT : ONDENK TSUM HUNDERTSTN YORTOG FUNM GEBOYRN FUNM FOT?ER FUN DER IDISHER KOLONIZATSYE IN ARGENT?INE, BARON MOSHEH HIRSH ZAL
(FT) 1st edition. Later Cloth, 8vo, 137 pages. Includes portrait and well over 40 photo plates of life in the Colony. 25 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. Jews -- Colonization -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. Agricultural colonies -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. Jewish farmers -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide (JTS, NYPL, LOC, FAU, U of Chicago, Harvard, Toronto, McGill), none west of chicago nor outside North America. Reprinted in 1986, this is the original edition from 1932. Bound in later boards, some internal binding repairs, ex-library with minimal markings. Good Condition. (LATAM1-46)
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(Jt) Hurwitz, S. L.
SEFER HA-MEZUZAH : `IM OR HA-MITSVOT. `EREKH HA-MITSVOT VE-TA`AME HA-MITSVOT BI-KHLAL VE-MITSVAT MEZUZAH BI-FRAT ... `IM KUNTERES HA-HALAKHAH. `INYENE HA-HALAKHAH BE-NOGE`A LE-MITSVOT VE-KHAVANAH, VE-`INYENE HA-HALAKHAH SHEBA-MITSVAT MEZUZAH, `AL-PI GEDOLE HA-POSKIM.
(FT) 8vo. 210 pages. In Hebrew. First edition. English title: The sefer ha-mesusa : all the commandments and their reasons. Includes list of board members and donors. SUBJECT(S) : Mezuza; Commandments (Judaism) . OCLC lists 22 copies worldwide. Corners bumped, smudge on title page, front hinge repaired, good condition. (RAB-23-12)
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(Jt) Hurwitz, S. L.
SEFER PENINIM MI-SIFRUT HA-DERUSH ...: YALKUT LE-SHABAT ULE-KOL MO`ADE HA-SHANAH.
(FT) 8vo. 346 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish sermons, Hebrew - United States. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Covers a little worn, owner's stamp on fly leaf, good condition. (RAB-21-25)
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(Jt) Hyman, Aaron
OTSAR DIVRE HAKHAMIM U-FITGAMEHEM: HU SEFER "BET VAAD LE-HAKHAMIM" BE-MILUI? M UVE-TIKUNIM RABIM ...
Hardcover, 4, 564 pages, 8vo, 25 cm. In Hebrew and Aramaic. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Quotations. Talmud - Quotations. Other Titles: Bet vaad la-hakhamim. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Hinge repair. Notes inside front cover. Spine repair. Bumped corners and edges. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-16-19)
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(Jt) Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ben Meïr.
THE COMMENTARY OF IBN EZRA ON ISAIAH: EDITED FROM MSS. AND TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES, INTRODUCTIONS AND INDEXES BY M. FRIEDLÄNDER, VOL. III.
Later Cloth. 8vo. 42; 115 pages. In Hebrew and English. Volume three of a three volume set published by the London Society of Hebrew Literature. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. One of two title pages is detached but present as is one in the rear. Chipping to pages but no damage to text. Overall in good condition. (SPEC23-15) .
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(Jt) Ibn Gabirol, Eliezer Lipman Silberman, Yehuda Ibn Tibon
SEFER GOREN NAKHON: VEHU TIKUN MIDOT HA-NEFESH
Softcover, 12mo, 37 pages, 16 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800. Translated from the Arabic by Yehudah ibn Tibon. Other Titles: Goren nakhon. Chipping to edges. Stained cover and pages. Wear and chipping to cover binding. Otherwise, good condition. (Heb-28-4)
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(Jt) Ibn Ghiyyat, Isaac, Seligmann Baer Bamberger and Yitshak Yeranen
SEFER SHAARE SIMHAH: HILKHOT RABENU YITSHAK BEN RABI YEHUDAH IBN GIYAT HA-NIKRAIM BE-SHEM MEAH SHEARIM: IM MEKOROT, BEURIM VE-HEAROT YITSHAK YERANEN (ONLY VOLUME 2)
(FT) Hardcover, 118 pages, 8vo, 29 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism -- Customs and practices -- Early works to 1800. Fasts and feasts -- Judaism -- Early works to 1800. Jewish mourning customs -- Early works to 1800. Includes bibliographical references. Other Titles: Shaare simhah; At head of title: Hilkhot ha-Rits Giyat. Bamberger (1807-1878) was a "rabbinical scholar and leader of German Orthodoxy. Born in the Bavarian village of Wiesenbronn, Bamberger studied at the yeshivah of Fuerth and in his native village. Bamberger opposed the proponents of Reform at a meeting of Jewish communities of Lower Franconia in 1834. In 1840 he was elected to succeed Bing, the district rabbi of Wuerzburg, in the face of fierce opposition from the Reformers. Bamberger continued the local yeshivah, founded an elementary school in 1855, and a teachers' training college in 1864. Despite his religious conservatism, Bamberger's position became the basis for modern Orthodox openness and acceptance of the surrounding non-Orthodox and secular Jewish community. The "Wuerzburger Rav, " as he was called, was one of the last great German-style talmudists, and his literary work was chiefly devoted to subjects of practical halakhah. Bamberger also wrote a commentary on Isaac ibn Ghayyat's halakhic compendium (Sha'arei Simah) and a treatise on the Al Tikrei formula in Talmud and Midrash. Together with A. Adler and M. Lehmann, Bamberger published a German translation of the Pentateuch on behalf of the Orthodox-Israelitische Bibelanstalt to counter L. Philippson's Bible translation, against which he had published a polemical pamphlet" (Berenbaum and Skolnik in EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Spertus, Univ of Leeds) . Shalom Spiegel's copy with bookplate. Hinge repair. Wear to edges of cover. Some stained pages. Otherwise, very good condition. (Rab-35-6)
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(Jt) Ibn-Zahav, Ari.
YERUSHALAYIM SHEL MA`ALAH.
(FT) 8vo. 91 pages. Frontispiece. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Jerusalem - poetry; Poetry, Hebrew. Ex library. Gift inscription on half title page, good condition. (HebLit-5-12)
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(jt) Ignatoff, David; Benjamin Kopman, Illustrator
VUNDER MAYSES FUN ALTEN [ALTN] PRAG
(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 231 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Wondertales of Old Prague; romantic fairy-tales about the hero Berl Prager, who experiences adventure as a follower of Rabbi Loew; written by David Ignatoff, with twenty-six illustrations by Benjamin Kopman. David Ignatoff (18851954) , Yiddish novelist and dramatist. Born in the Ukraine, Ignatoff was active in the revolutionary movement in Kiev (190306) before leaving for the United States. In 1907 he helped to found the literary group Di Yunge. (EJ 2008) Benjamin Kopman (1887-1965) , American painter, lithographer, etcher and illustrator, Benjamin Kopman came to the United States from Russia in 1903. He studied art at the National Academy of Design, Washington, DC. , and held his first one man show in 1912 at the Scott Thurber Gallery in Chicago and the Macbeth Gallery in New York City. During the following years, Kopman exhibited at such major institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, La Napoule Art Foundation, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public collections that today include Kopman's original prints and paintings are the Carnegie Institute, Colgate University, Brooklyn Museum, University of Michigan and the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. (EJ 2008) . OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide, combined, of the first and deluxe edition (does not distinguish between them) . Subjects: Jews - Czech Republic - Prague - Fiction. Yiddish literature. Light wear and fading to cloth, tape mark on spine, otherwise fine. Very good condition. (ART-21-4)
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(Jt) Imber, Naphtali Herz
TREASURES OF TWO WORLDS; UNPUBLISHED LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE JEWISH NATION
Later Wraps. 8vo. VI, 201 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Scarce. Contents include: History of mysticism: the Mahatmas of the Essenes; The wonders of the original Mahatmas; Tales of Rabba Bar Barchana; Ghost stories of an unknown; Titus; The Miserere; Rabbi Ishmael; Spanish spoilation, or the Grand Inquisition; French frivolity; Jewish Trials in Germany; Education and Talmud. Naphtali Herz Imber (18561909) , poet and author of 'Ha-Tikvah' ('The Hope') , the Zionist and later the Israel national anthem. He was born in Galicia where he received an intensive traditional but no secular education. Imber went to Palestine with Laurence Oliphant, a Christian Zionist whom he met in Constantinople in 1882 and whom he served as secretary and adviser on Jewish affairs in Palestine (188288) . In 1888, he returned to Europe but soon his restless nature took him back to the East and he wandered as far as Bombay. In India, as in Palestine, he was wooed by missionaries and was later accused of apostasy. Even Israel Zangwill, with whom he became friendly in London, believed that Imber converted to Christianity in order to escape starvation. Imber inspired the character of Melchizedek in Zangwill's novel Children of the Ghetto. In 1892 he went to the United States and traveled throughout the land. After a brief visit to London, he returned to America where he spent the rest of his life in squalor, misery, and alcoholism. Fortunately, the poet again found a patron; this time in the person of Judge Mayer Sulzberger, who gave him a monthly subvention. Imber's colorful personality attracted Amanda Katie, a Protestant physician of high intellect and of unusual charm. She converted to Judaism and married him, but after a brief interval of happiness, their marriage was dissolved. Tikvatenu (later changed to Ha-Tikvah) appeared in his first volume of poems Barkai ('Dawn') and is dated 'Jerusalem 1884.' In his second volume of poems, Barkai he-Hadash ('The New Dawn') , published in 1900 by his devoted brother Shemaryahu, there was a poem dedicated to his wife ('Shir ha-Shirim') . Imber published part of his biography in the Jewish Standard (London) , and it was republished by G. Yardeni-Agmon in D. Carpi (ed. ) , Ha-Hiyyonut (1970) , 357462. In 1905, his Hebrew translation of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was published under the title Ha-Kos ('The Cup') . Imber also translated some of his own poems into English and wrote several tracts in English on talmudic literature. EJ 2008. Subjects: Jewish legends. Jews Folklore. Light soiling throughout, lightly worn edges, otherwise fresh. Good - condition. (SPEC-40-26)
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(Jt) Immanuel Jakobovits, Sir; Geulah Bath Yehudah
HA-REFUAH VEHA-YAHADUT: MEHKAR HA-SHEVATI VE-HISTORI AL YAHAS HA-DAT HA-YEHUDIT LA-REFUAH
(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 9, 320 pages. In Hebrew. Series: Sifriyat Ya? Akov Mikha? El, targumim va-asupot mi-hokhmat Yisra? El, 17. Added title page: Jewish medical ethics: a comparative and historical study of the Jewish religious attitude to medicine and its practice. Other Titles: Jewish medical ethics. Jakobovitz (1921-1999) was a rabbi. Jakobovits was born in Koenigsberg, the son of Julius Jakobovits, rabbi of the local Orthodox congregation and later dayyan in Berlin and London. He studied for the rabbinate at Jews College and at the Etz Hayyim Yeshivah, London. After serving as minister to a number of London synagogues, in 1949 he became chief rabbi of Dublin and the Jewish communities in the Irish Republic. Jakobovits was rabbi of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, New York, from 1958 until 1966, when he was appointed chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, serving until his retirement in 1991. Jakobovits was appointed honorary director of the Center for Jewish Medical Ethics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, in 1977, and a fellow of University College, London, in 1984. Knighted in 1981, Jakobovits became a peer in 1988. His Jewish Medical Ethics, published in 1959 with a fourth edition in 1977, is regarded as a standard work in the field. His other publications include Jewish Law Faces Modern Problems, Journal of a Rabbi, The Timely and the Timeless, and If Only My People
Zionism in My Life. In 1991 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (Saxena in EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Univ of Virginia) . Light wear. Very good condition. (Heb-17-5)
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(Jt) Institut Zum Studium Der Judenfrage.
DIE JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND.
Munich: Franz Eher Nachf. , 1936. Cloth, 4to. 416 pages. 4. Auflage. 17.-21. Tausend. In German. Illustrated with tables. Major Nazi propaganda work outlining their view of the negative role Jews played in the history of Germany. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Germany. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide of this edition (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, US Holocaust Meml Museum) . Stamped "Landgericht Heidelberg" ("Heidelberg Regional Court") on flyleaf and title page. Inscribed "Germany April 28, 1945. Presented to Dr. Dinin as a souvenir from Germany. S/Sgt H. Norman Tress. " Tress was the illustrator of Jewish Customs and Ceremonies (1941) ; Dr. Dinin was a JTS professor who was sent to the West Coast in 1945 by that institution. He "played a key role in developing several institutional pillars of Jewish education in [Los Angeles], including the West Coast's Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) affiliate, the University of Judaism (UJ) and Camp Ramah. And, by extension, he has nourished many of the city's Jewish minds. " (Michael Aushenker, The Jewish Journal) Ex-library with minimal markings. Water damaged; some warping to pages. Text in very good condition. (GR-07A-6)
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(Jt) Isaacs, Moses Legis.
FAITH AND SCIENCE.
12mo. 30 pages. SUBJECT (S) : Judaism and science. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (UCLA, NY Public Library, Hebrew Union College, UPenn) . SERIES: The Jewish library : 2nd series, vol. 2. Soiled, bumped, good- condition. (SPEC-7-10)
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(Jt) Ishbili, Yom-Tob Ban Abraham; Kalman Kahana.
SEFER HA-ZIKARON.
(FT) 8vo. 79 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 Dalalat al-hairin; Nahmanides, ca. 1195-ca. 1270 Perush ha-Torah; Bible. O. T. Pentateuch commentaries. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Has soiled dust jacket. Ex library. Good condition. (RAB-24-20)
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(Jt) Jacob Neusner.
THE PERFECT TORAH
9789004130333. Original Publishers cloth, Large 8vo, , xxvi, 214 pages. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise very clean and solid, probably unread (KH-4-7)
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(Jt) Jacobowitz, Abraham Leib [A. A. Akavia]
HA-LUAH VE-SHIMUSHO BI-KHRONOLOGYA = THE CALENDAR AND ITS USE FOR CHRONOLOGICAL PURPOSES INCLUDING A JEWISH-CHRISTIAN-MOSLEM CALENDAR FROM THE CREATION TO THE YEAR 6000 A.M.
Original Boards. 8vo. 182 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. 'The Calendar and its Chronological Use: A reference book for technical and historical chronology. ' With material on the Tequfah of Nisan, Tequfot reckoning, chronology, material on conversion of dates (including conversion of Jewish-Christian-Moslem dates) . Avraham Aryeh Leib Akavya (Yakobovits) (18821964) , Polish-born Hebrew and Yiddish writer and editor. After the publication of his first story in David Frischmann's Ha-Dor (1901) , Akavya became a steady contributor to the Hebrew press and literary periodicals. He also wrote stories and novels in Yiddish, and translated from Yiddish to Hebrew. Akavya edited several Yiddish weeklies, the Hebrew daily Ha-Boker (with D. Frischmann (1909) ) , the biweekly for youth Shibbolim, and (after World War I) Ha-Zefirah and Ha-Yom. He went to Palestine in 1935 and was an editor of the short Massadah encyclopedia and later the chief editor of the Yizre'el encyclopedia. He devoted many years of research to the Hebrew calendar and published various books on the subject. - EJ 2008 Subjects: Jewish calendar. Jewish chronology. OCLC lists 16 copies. Scarce. Light wear to boards, bookplate on endpage, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (BIBLE-14-20)
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(Jt) Jacobs, Jacob; Olshanetsky, Alexander. [Molly Picon]
ZLATOPOL = ZLATOPOL
Original wraps. 4to. 6 pages. 31 cm. First edition. Lyrics in Yiddish and romanized Yiddish. Zlatopol; Played at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theatre, New York. Michael Saks presents Al Olshanetsky and Jacob Kalich's Operetta 'What Girls Do' featuring Molly Picon. As sung by Leon Gold. Libretto by William Siegel. Lyrics by Jacob Jacobs; music by Alexander Olshanetsky. For voice and Piano. Wraps printed in blue ink, with photographs of Leon Gold and Alexander Olshanetsky. Includes cast of performance and descriptions of the acts and scenes, in English and Yiddish, on last page. Alexander Olshanetsky (18921946) Born in Odessa, Alexander Olshanetsky was among the most prominent and prolific composers and conductors of the Yiddish theater, and was also a highly regarded synagogue choir director. (Milken Archive) . Subjects: Songs, Yiddish. Yiddish Theatre. OCLC lists 4 copies (NYPL, Florida Atlantic, Harvard, OSU) . Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (MUSIC-3-55)
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(Jt) Jacobs, Joseph.
STUDIES IN BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
London: D. Nutt, 1894. Hardcover. 8vo. 148 pages. Seven different essays about the Bible and various subjects, including totem-clans in the Old Testament. SUBJECT (S) : Bible-Antiquities. OCLC lists 41 copies worldwide. Gilt lettering on cover and binding. Colored endpapers. Slight damage to corners; occasional spotting in text but no damage to text. Overall in very good condition. (BR-8-6) .
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(Jt) Jampel, Sigmund.
DIE WIEDERHERSTELLUNG ISRAELS UNTER DEN ACHÄMENIDEN, KRITISCH-HISTORISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG MIT INSCHRIFTLICHER BELEUCHTUNG.
8vo. 171 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Jews history 568 B. C. E. -70 C. E. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Jampel [1874-1934], who was born in Galicia, studied Semitics at Heidelberg University and subsequently became rabbi at Schwedt, Brandenburg in 1910. He was among the first Jewish Bible scholars who recognized the value of archaeological and epigraphical finds for establishing the antiquity of the historical accounts of the Bible and the questioning of Wellhausen's hypotheses. His work (most of which was first published in MGWJ but was also intended for the general reader) includes Die Wiederherstellung Israels unter den Achaemeniden (1904) , dealing with the epigraphic material relative to Ezra-Nehemiah... (EJ, 2007) Boaz Cohen's copy with donation stamp. Pages tanned, tape on spine with author's name, title page stained, good condition. (GER-28-30)
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(Jt) Jawitz, Wolf.
TOLDOT YISRAEL : METUKAN `AL PI HA-MEKOROT HA-RISHONIM. VOLUME 9 : ME-RESHIT RABANAN SABORAI 4234 `AD SOF YEME HA-GEONIM.
(FT) 8vo. 236 pages. In Hebrew. Volume nine (of fourteen) only. SUBJECT(S) : Jews - history; Israel - history. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Bookplate, occasional spots on pages, otherwise good condition. (HebLit-5-17)
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(Jt) Jawitz, Wolf.
TOLDOT YISRAEL: METUKAN `AL PI HA-MEKOROT HA-RISHONIM. VOLUME 6.
(FT) 8vo. Vi, 251 pages. In Hebrew. Volume six (of fourteen) only. SUBJECT(S) : Jews - history. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies) . Bookplate, front hinge starting, good condition. (HebLit-3-28)
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(Jt) Jechiel Ben Samuel, Aus Pisa; David Kaufmann.
SEFER MINHAT KENAOT.
(FT) 8vo. Xvii, 118 pages. In Hebrew. Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (Ha-Penini; probably born in the 1280s and died about 1340), was a "poet and philosopher. Possibly a native of Béziers, Jedaiah is known to have spent time in Perpignan and Montpellier. Little is known of his personal history. He may have been a physician. Jedaiah's intellectual interests were literary and philosophic, although the two spheres were not clearly separated. In his youth, he composed a poetic prayer of 1,000 words titled " Bakkashat ha-Memim," every word of which begins with the letter mem (in Olelot ha-Bohen, 1808). He is also credited with a similar composition, every word of which begins with alef, but many believe that this latter poem was written by Jedaiah's father. In popular style he composed Ohev Nashim ('In Defense of Women,' ed. by A. Neubauer in Jubelschrift
L. Zunz (1884), pt. 1, 13840; pt. 2, 119). His best-known literary work is Sefer Behinat Olam ('The Book of the Examination of the World'), a lyrical, ethical monograph on the theme of the futility and vanity of this world, and the inestimably greater benefits of intellectual and religious pursuits. Behinat Olam, written in florid prose and rich in imagery, combines philosophic doctrine and religious fervor with a good measure of asceticism and pessimism" (Ruth Glasner in EJ, 2007). SUBJECT(S) : Philosophy and religion; Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi, ca. 1270-ca. 1340. SERIES: Sefarim ha-yotsim la-or ba-pa`am ha-rishonah `al yede Hevrat Mekitse nirdamim, ; shenat 14. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Good condition. (GER-28-1)
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(jt) Jellinek, Ad[Olf].
DER JÜDISCHE STAMM IN NICHTJÜDISCHEN SPRICHWÖRTERN. VOLUMES 2 & 3.
Vienna: Bermann & Altmann, 1882 & 1885. Cloth; 8vo. 98, 76 pages. Marbled boards. Volumes 2 & 3 of a 3-volume set. Contents: 2. Ser. Spanishe, ungarische und kleindeutsche sprichwörter. --3. Ser. Französische, italienische, rumänische und slavische sprichwörter. Adolf Jellinek was "the greatest, most gifted Jewish preacher that modern Judaism has produced. His thorough knowledge of the Midrash, and the startling uses he made of it in his sermons, distinguish him especially from all his contemporaries and predecessors. In his discourses he is the most brilliant apologist of Judaism and the most accomplished and courageous opponent of all its enemies, both within and without the Synagogue. All his addresses are timely answers of Judaism to present-day questions and problems of intellectual and national life, of religion and science. With admirable insight he immediately recognizes in every midrash the whole structure of the original discourse.... Jellinek also produced a large number of scholarly works in numerous fields [as this work]. " (JE) SUBJECT(S) : Jews, Proverbs. Edgeworn; pages dark. Leaves brittle and chipping; some detached. Text in good condition. (GER-7-3)
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