Be-Pardes ha-Chassidut: 'Iyunim ba-Machshavah u-be-heyotah [In the Orchard of Chassidism: Studies of its Thoughts and Existence]
Tel Aviv: Mossad Bialik, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. RARE: OCLC only lists 5 holdings.
8vo. 144pp. 1/4 beige cloth over brown paper covered boards with gold lettering to cover and brown lettering to spine in original dust wrapper. Work on the Chassidic Movement, by one of the most renowned scholar on the subject, the late Prof. Martin Buber. The "Orchard of Chassidism" referred to in the title is sometimes also known as the "Garden of Knowledge" and is a key idea of Chassidic thought. Serious wear and browning to wrappers, with large parts missing; the writing on front wrapper is not affected. Rippling to endpapers, alongside spine, with browning (from flap of wrapper) to endpapers. Minor browning throughout. Otherwise clean and tight. In Hebrew. Dust wrapper in poor, interior in good condition. fair. Item #20391
Price: $175.00