Douanes

1985 — Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English, German, French, and Hebrew. 397, 56, [4] p., many b/w plts. Essays on Jewish folklore and comparative literature. This posthumous collection of studies by Scheiber, the last of his own gathering, has turned into a sad event for scholars of Judaism and ethnography. Prof. Scheiber was the learned director of Budapest's Rabbinical Seminary for nearly forty years; during this period he educated several generations of rabbis and scholars, wrote 1500 publications, edited and contributed to a variety of scholarly journals and anthologies. The present volume collects, for the first time, his most important articles attempting a synthesis between the ethnography and literature of East and West.